Charlotte Blease

It's already happening, Eric.

I mean, just to add to that, I've done survey research in the UK among GPs.

2024, how many, I asked 1,000 GPs with my team, are you using any generative AI tools for clinical tasks?

20% said yes.

We redid the survey 2025, so January this year, year apart, 25%.

Now, those are commercial tools like ChatGPT.

So they're using them, but then as you say, are they using them effectively?

Yes, so that, okay, so we do have a slew of articles right now.

New York Times has done a lot of these articles during the last week.

Look, I think it's a serious problem.

It's something very, we should be very concerned about it.

But I also, and this may seem again, my sort of philosophical, let's take a step back, a big picture perspective here.

And while there may well be harms there, we shouldn't overly romance what is currently going on when patients lack access to therapists.

because this debate's often more about therapy, in fact, than it is medicine.

But also something I've looked at is the evidence base for psychotherapy.

Now, consider just for a second, if you park all of the challenges with AI and the potential negatives, especially with young people relying on these tools.

But psychotherapy, the late, great Scott Lilienfeld was one of the few sort of iconoclastic clinical psychologists and researchers

who estimated back in 2007 that 10% of therapy led to worse outcomes for patients.

It tends to be not that much investigated, the harms that can be done in face-to-face therapy with a therapist.

So there can be negative outcomes, even if you're seeing a human being.