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Lots of people are using AI chatbots for therapy or therapy-like purposes. Investigator Dan Toomey boldly asks the question: should lots of people be using AI chatbots for therapy or therapy-like purposes?
FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH THE FOLLOWING EXPERTS:
Dr. Nina Vasan (Stanford professor, practicing psychiatrist, and leading researcher in digital wellbeing and AI safety)
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Stephen Schueller, PhD (Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-schueller-96a207123/
Vaile Wright, PhD (Senior Director of the Office of Health Care Innovation in the Practice Directorate at the American Psychological Association)
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Dr. Andrew Clark (an experienced child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist with a part time private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.). Read his Medium piece about his experiment with chatbot therapy: https://medium.com/@andrew56clark/adventures-in-ai-therapy-a-child-psychiatrist-goes-undercover-686e9c8eb439
Kashmir Hill (technology and privacy reporter for the New York Times)
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Kashmir’s article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html
Giada Pistilli, philosophy PhD (AI ethicist)
https://x.com/GiadaPistilli
Writers / creators: Jack Stebbins, Henry Stockwell, Dan Toomey
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Platform strategist: Jen Walsh
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