ChatGPT can’t be in the room with you. Can’t evoke psychological mirroring. Is AI going to cure loneliness? Will the AI be empathetic? Will it be capable of showing love? Can it give you the acceptance of another human being? Do these things matter if they’re simulated? Do these things matter at all?
I don’t deny the helpfulness of LLMs on many aspects of therapy and mental health. I’ve used it myself. Relational problems (of which almost all mental health is a part) requires relational healing.
I think we’re going to need to learn a lot more information about what being a human means, else we continue to in the name of business and financial efficiency lose something very important. I’m an optimist, but we have a lot of challenges ahead.
I don’t deny the helpfulness of LLMs on many aspects of therapy and mental health. I’ve used it myself. Relational problems (of which almost all mental health is a part) requires relational healing.
I think we’re going to need to learn a lot more information about what being a human means, else we continue to in the name of business and financial efficiency lose something very important. I’m an optimist, but we have a lot of challenges ahead.