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

I think that I've been taken by this saying, I think it was by a computer scientist, but he said maybe it's a good idea to use AI to offload things that are boring but not things that are hard.

And so when I think about just trying to find something or plow through something, those are things that are often quite

boring.

But when I think about reading a paper and synthesizing in your mind and making the connections to other ideas that you have, I'm pretty cautious about allowing AI to do those types of things because I think, you know, I don't want to let that muscle atrophy.

But I also think that there's a real danger of having a more homogenized way that we do science or do journalism if everything is AI informed, AI generated.

Yeah.

Well I think

The most immediate way in which AI will be used and already is being used is on the administrative side and the regulatory burden side.

And so thinking about things like AI scribes, billing, coding, risk adjustment, all those types of things I think are increasingly being automated and done by AI.

And that is true of in the mental health care space, but also more generally in healthcare.

The second kind of low-hanging fruit is patient navigation, as you mentioned.

And I think we sometimes underestimate how complex and difficult it is to navigate the system, particularly for people with chronic medical conditions or certainly serious mental illnesses.

And to the extent that these tools can help people understand and maybe even prepare for their next doctor's visit, understand their lab results or imaging studies, uh increasingly we may have I

AI agents that are capable of performing multi-step type of processes to schedule appointments and coordinate care and so on.

I think that's another huge unlock.

We talked about drug discovery, certainly in the mental health space, that's as important as it is in other parts of healthcare, but also drug repurposing.

And so this idea that there are all these medications that we have that are approved, that are safe and effective for a particular indication.

But do they have other use cases that we're not currently using?

And a good example of that is GLP once.

I've been following some of the literature.

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