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Millions are turning to AI with their deepest secrets, hoping for a digital 'cure.' Wired explores this new frontier of AI therapy. Can an algorithm truly provide emotional support, or are we just outsourcing our feelings to a sophisticated chatbot?

Would you trust an AI with your mental well-being?

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-therapist-collective-psyche/

#AI #MentalHealth #TherapyTech #TechEthics #DigitalWellbeing

The Haunting Story of Two People—and Their Bots—on Therapy’s New Frontier

As millions confide in ChatGPT about their most intimate problems, these relationships are even stranger, more moving, and more insidious than we've imagined.

WIRED

Emma Bedor Hiland Dec 16, 2022

Recognizing the practical limits of health technologies, especially in the mental healthcare space, is important for practitioners as well as the general public.

Grateful to have had the opportunity to discuss a number of those concerns (especially related to therapeutic AI and chatbots) in this article for Therapist.com: https://therapist.com/technology/next-therapist-chatbot/

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Could your next therapist be a chatbot?

Chatbot apps offer free, accessible mental health support—but they may cause more problems than they solve, explains Emma Bedor Hiland, PhD.

therapist.com