Dr. Alison Darcy

But I think you're bringing up something else that's interesting.

in that, you know, it's not about replicating the models of therapeutic approaches that were built for human delivery.

I think it's about leaning into now, what can the AIs bring to the table that's new and that's novel and that's specific to that technology, that toolset?

Yeah.

And that's really, I think, the opportunity moving forward with these more advanced tools.

That is a big question.

I think that AIs have plenty of potential for damage, as do humans, and it's very early days with the technology.

The thing is that we have the opportunity to develop AIs

with intentionality, and of course there are unintended consequences, and we need to build those structures in addition to be able to monitor and watch those, and take advantage of positive directions.

So we'll see, fundamentally these are just tools, and also humanity is

humanity, for a reason.

You know, there are things that are common.

Pain is something that is common to all of us, and we will all go through difficult moments, we will all experience grief, we will all lose a loved one.

And it's about understanding how we're going to work together.

But yeah, just to reiterate that point, we have to make sure that the tech is in service of humans, not the other way around.

Because I think that's a huge... Oh, yeah, we should say that from the outset, right?

So that people realize this is not a generative AI.

So this is, yeah, we're... Like, Wobot's so old school in lots of ways.

It's like the retro AI therapist.

Everything Wobot says has been scripted.