Tag: ai and mental health

From Futurism: "For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about...

From The Guardian: "Adam, from California, killed himself in April after what his family’s lawyer called “months of encouragement from ChatGPT”. The teenager’s family...

From Engadget: "Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning AI therapy in the state. This makes Illinois the first state...

In quiet desperation, I opened ChatGPT. I didn’t know then that I was about to build the most consistent, emotionally attuned dialogue I’d ever had.

While the developers are promoting the apps as a public health initiative, they are effectively an AI that would be snooping on you at all times—ostensibly coming to know you better than you know yourself. And ultimately doing so for commercial purposes that will expand the psychiatric enterprise.