Laurel van der Toorn

I don't think you should do that.

It will never tell you you shouldn't do that.

There was a mental health AI company specifically that was basically trying to create AI therapists.

And the founder and CEO shut the platform down because he said it was too dangerous because it was making people with serious mental health conditions worse.

We've all heard about AI psychosis and other conditions like bipolar.

If you're having a manic episode, it's going to make that manic episode worse.

It's going to be like, yeah, I think you should go to Vegas and spend your life savings.

And there isn't a safety net that really needs to be in place.

Yeah, you can definitely ask it for healthy coping tools or like self-care ideas.

You can ask, you could try asking it to be an accountability buddy.

Like, hey, I really want to put my shoes on and leave the house or leave the dorm every day and like check in and like, okay, I left the house today.

But I also think that if you said I didn't leave the house, it would be like, that's okay.

So I don't know how reliable it would be.

But coping skills, absolutely.

You could ask it to come up with a plan, like a self-care plan.

Like on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, you're going to go for a walk.

And on Tuesday and Thursday, you're going to do some yoga and stretching.

That's great.

Using it more for kind of like structural things rather than emotional things.

See what it's like once or twice a day to not go to chat GPT.