Tag: Therapy bots pros and cons

  • Friend or Foe: AI Can Talk. But Can it Care?

    Friend or Foe: AI Can Talk. But Can it Care?

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    The Fear: Connection Without Vulnerability

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    The Opportunity: A Wider Net

    Paraphrase what was said. Ask a relevant question

    The Loss: What Can’t Be Replaced

    negative capability heal Iain McGilchrist

    The Ethical Grey Zones

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    A Tool, Not a Therapist

    “The danger is not that I am here. The danger is when people forget what I am.” (Chat-GPT-4)
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    The Future of AI in Therapy

    The hopeful one with. The bleak one

    The Human Code

    real presence

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    References & Further Reading

    Henrich, J. (2020). The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374710453/theweirdestpeopleintheworld

    Keats, J. (1817). Letter to George and Tom Keats. In Gittings, R. (Ed.) (1970). Letters of John Keats: A Selection. Oxford University Press.

    McGilchrist, I. (2009). The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300245929/the-master-and-his-emissary

    Murphy, K. (2023). The limits of AI in psychotherapy: Efficiency without empathy. Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy, 15(2), 87 to 102.

    Tiku, N. (2023, May 1). When chatbots go wrong. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/01/chatbot-suicide-ethical-concerns