Since the ground-shaking debut of ChatGPT in late 2022, society has looked down onto AI systems with a rabid (and occasionally morbid) curiosity. In a world where AI is able — but not guaranteed — to change everything around us, which customs and practices will we hold on to, and which will become obsolete? Which elements of humanity can we automate away, while we move onto bigger and better things, and which will we find ourselves unwilling to part with?
 
This article, in many respects, contemplates this potential world: a world with a strong role of AI in mental healthcare, where therapy is as much a technological tool as it is a human relationship. More poignantly, however, I explore what we put at risk when we allow AI in the therapist’s chair. 
 
It’s a story of lucrative data markets, nefarious design, a Wild West of unregulation, and big corporate payoffs — in short, the dangers of allowing tech into the private corners of our mind.
 
 
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Author Bio: Kate Farmer is a writer, commentator, and freelance journalist for Young Voices. Her writing centers around mental health, homelessness, and public safety. Kate's works have appeared in various state and national publications, including RealClearScience, The Washington Examiner, The American Spectator, and Reason.  She is an incoming student at Harvard Law School.