Jonathan Haidt

But there's this, you know, that's the moment, right?

2014, where everything changed.

So my work as a doctor, I think about what we can do and how I can empower people to first build awareness.

So I aim to first normalize and validate the experience with everyone who is engaging with chatbots.

And so-

I don't like to shame people because as a doctor, you want to meet the patient where they are.

And so I won't shame someone to say, why is your boyfriend AI?

Or why are you getting married to AI?

Or why are you using AI for a therapist?

One of my followers on social media, it still makes me laugh,

I put out a call saying, why are you using AI as a therapist, you know?

And so someone wrote to me.

It was great.

I screenshot it.

It said, because all human therapists are trash with a trash can emoji.

And it made me laugh.

And I said, you know –

So there is, so to me, when I think about what's happening and what we can do, it's no mistake that we're here right now.

So the pandemic, like we've talked about, was a huge driver, social isolation, hyper-reliance on self, right?

Then the proliferation of technology that replaced human interaction, Zoom board meetings, Zoom funerals, Zoom birthday parties, Zoom graduations, things that we did in person are now