Generative AI, psychiatry and the risks of self-service therapy

Generative AI, psychiatry and the risks of self-service therapy

ALE+ALE Everything has sped up in recent months. Young (and not-so-young) people from all over the world have started turning to ChatGPT and other chatbot programs to share their distress. Courts on several continents have had to tackle cases in which chatbots allegedly induced states of delirium or, worse, assisted in suicide. The most recent…