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Dr. Alison Darcy

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192 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

confidential therapist patient relationship we feel that people using it may feel it is and so we actually try and hit those things regardless we treat it as if it is a confidential relationship so for example where we are working with a health setting where they have in the past and they have asked for the full transcript data we've absolutely said no way and we've walked away from deals to say there's no way those things are

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

They're sacred.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

They are sacred.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And while they're not protected by law in the same way as a patient therapist notes are, we hold it to that same bar.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

But of course, there is no law.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

So we're one company among many that are doing this right now.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

So that's just something to note.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

Yeah.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

Yeah, I know.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And that's right.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And I think one of the challenges we have in the field of AI is that most people don't understand the tech.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And so it's so easy to scare and scaremonger.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

But you have to imagine, you know, when we say,

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

They can self-improve.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

You still have to tell it.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

How are you improving?

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

That's the objective function.

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

What is the objective function?

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And what are you improving towards?

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The mental health AI chatbot made for real life | Alison Darcy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

We still get to say that's human empowerment.