Dr. Daniel Knoepflmacher

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On the Mind with Dr. Daniel Knoepflmacher · On AI and Mental Health: It's Already Here. Are We Ready? · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

It's quite concerning.

So that's in that toy, but we're seeing that actually in the psychotherapy space too, that sycophancy that you're describing.

And certainly

That type of approach can be reassuring when someone is in a moment of distress and they're using a chat button.

Actually, in that data I mentioned the beginning from the JAMA article.

most of those young adults and adolescents felt positively about those interactions or most of those interactions with chatbots.

But that doesn't mean the chatbot is providing therapy

Or is even frankly therapeutic because therapy, as you know, and as you said, like if we just have these perfect, great relationships from toys, what about the uncomfortable, messy relationships that exist out in the world and that exist in our own psychology?

And really therapy is often uncomfortable.

It's part of a delicate process of recovery, self-understanding, and doing

behavioral change which is really difficult.

but is powered by this therapeutic alliance that exists between a therapist and a patient.

And you have written about, you've alluded to this already, the crucial humanistic elements of medicine, that special encounter that's central to healing.

So, how can we square that fundamentally human aspect of mental health care with the adoption of AI chatbots for therapy?

It's different than a computer that's interpreting an EKG, because if we're starting to hack these inherently human parts of our work.

What's left behind and what impact is that gonna have on our patients as human beings?

And I think when the producers of these products, because they are products, with profit being a motivator, it does not necessarily

champion that human element.

And I want to ask you another piece about this related to it being profit driven, which is that it's difficult, I would say, to make a distinction amongst all these products that are out there.

That they're being marketed as mental health tools, blurs into wellness.

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