Dr. Dhruv Khullar

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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

And the patient was ultimately

Very grateful that number one, that she'd been called out.

Number two, that someone had been there for her during the most challenging moments.

And now her life was better for it.

And it's hard to see how a chatbot, or at least the chatbots, the way that they're constructed today, could offer that type of care to a person.

So I think your point around sometimes what's needed is not certainly not sycophiny, it's something quite different.

I also

Think that we should be quite skeptical of things that try to displace or replace relationships in our lives, whether those are clinical relationships or whether those are familial relationships or social relationships.

And to the extent that these tools can be used as just that, as tools as opposed to substitutes for relationships in psychiatry or in medicine, if they are.

being used in a purposeful way to accomplish a particular goal, to implement some type of behavior change, or to get people to recognize or make things easier for them in certain ways.

That's all great.

But when we say these things are now going to be a substitute for the doctor that you would have had or to be a companion in some sort of way or you should have a direct relationship that's not based on let's manage your heart failure or let's make sure that you adhere

That's where I think things get really tricky and we should be quite wary of that.

Yeah.

I think one thing that is really important to point out is

What a company or product's business model is really can show you what the incentive is.

If, for instance, a lot of mental health startups, the business model or the way that they've made money, at least some of them, is by writing prescriptions.

The more pills that they prescribe, the more money they make.

And writing prescriptions is always going to be more scalable than building relationships.

And so just understanding something about the business model of a

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