Dr. Dhruv Khullar
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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When I wrote that piece starting in 22, 23, I was focused on a different chatbot, which was called Wobot, which actually no longer even has a patient.
oriented side of it anymore because it's been kind of displaced by these newer models.
And it used some natural language processing, but was fundamentally based on scripts that were developed by psychologists and writers to respond to a patient and help them work through, let's say, a course of C B T.
But even in that primitive, relatively primitive now chatbot, what was so interesting as I started using it was that when we are interacting with something that uses pronouns like I or we, and when it is even simulating empathy, how easy, how natural it is for humans to fall into a relationship with something like that.
I mean, already so much of our interaction with other people, real people, is digital.
digital.
We're always texting and we're always looking at social media and we're doing things that are not face to face.
And so
it's even more perhaps easy than in the past to develop a relationship with relatively primitive chatbots.
And now these chatbots are so much more fluent and so much more effective and so much more flexible than they ever were in the past.
And I think that creates a real opportunity.
You can develop a connection.
They're much more engaging and perhaps certain types of therapy can be delivered.
Certainly it can be delivered at
hours and days that a human can't be w there with you.
But there's also a lot of cause for concern because there's risks of let's say overrelying on chatbots, of being manipulated by them or manipulating them.
We don't know that it's healthy to have, you know, long-term digital relationships with these types of models.
And do they displace other forms of real human interaction?
And so I'm actually quite worried that there's going to be these types of parasocial relationships.
Where maybe in narrow cases can be quite helpful for people, but we are running kind of a mass experiment in a way where people are now having the types of relationships that they might have had with humans with machines.
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