Mental health
fromPsychology Today
8 hours agoAI in the Therapy Room
Therapists using AI in sessions without clear disclosure risk patient privacy, trust, and may violate ethical and professional standards.
With artificial intelligence integrating - or infiltrating - into every corner of our lives, some less-than-ethical mental health professionals have begun using it in secret, causing major trust issues for the vulnerable clients who pay them for their sensitivity and confidentiality. As MIT Technology Review reports, therapists have used OpenAI's ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) for everything from email and message responses to, in one particularly egregious case, suggesting questions to ask a patient mid-session.