Dr. John Torous

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When Science Finds a Way · AI and mental health: can we trust AI therapy? · 15 Apr 2026 podcast

You can go on.

You don't need any program experience.

You don't need any clinical experience.

You can kind of make your own mental health chatbot.

It's not really delivering mental health, but you can call it Freud Therapist Bot.

put it out there and offer it to people.

So we think about 20% of the apps now claim to have AI inside them.

But the question is, what does that mean to have AI inside?

Yeah.

They're not very clear.

And a lot of times it just means it has natural language processing.

So just like you can call an airline and you can say press one for ticket or yell one, it'll do it.

So natural language processing uses AI to turn your words into ones and zeros.

So I do worry or wonder if a lot of the uses of AI in these apps are just kind of superficial.

No, I think that's fair because if you're really adding AI in the sense that we think about today of generative AI and large language models,

You're opening yourself up to a lot of risk, right?

That these apps could start telling people things that are dangerous or unhelpful.

So you have to have a very robust monitoring system if you're really offering AI in kind of the modern sense of the word.

So I think that the fact that these apps are not doing that tells us it's probably a little bit more superficial and trying to lean into the kind of buzz and have better marketing.

is reasonable, it could work.

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