This, similar to your other comment, is unrelated to my comment.
This is about determining if AI can be a equivalent or better (defined as: achieving equal or better clinical outcomes) therapist than a human. That is a question that can be studied and answered.
Whether artificial intelligence accurately models human intelligence, or whether an airplane is "smarter" than a bird, are entirely separate questions that can perhaps serve to explain _why/how_ the AI can (or can't) achieve better results than the thing we're comparing against, but not whether it does or does not. Those questions are perhaps unanswerable based on today's knowledge. But they're not prerequisites.
This is about determining if AI can be a equivalent or better (defined as: achieving equal or better clinical outcomes) therapist than a human. That is a question that can be studied and answered.
Whether artificial intelligence accurately models human intelligence, or whether an airplane is "smarter" than a bird, are entirely separate questions that can perhaps serve to explain _why/how_ the AI can (or can't) achieve better results than the thing we're comparing against, but not whether it does or does not. Those questions are perhaps unanswerable based on today's knowledge. But they're not prerequisites.