Şerife Tekin

Dr. Şerife Tekin

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics

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Medical News Today Article: “Depression: VR may Help Improve Mental Health”

“We do know,” said Tekin, “both from research and patients’ first-person reports, that active engagement in one’s own recovery process

AI and the Future of Psychiatry the Focus of a Presentation Hosted by the NE Ostapenko Center for Ethics in...

“We should stop calling these apps a medical device or tool or therapist until we prove and show that they

Radio Interview: “Worries about AI; A Treatable Health Condition; Fixing Injured Joints”

“Worries about AI; A Treatable Health Condition; Fixing Injured Joints” Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Jan. 24,

“AI Therapy: Could Your Next Therapist be a Robot,” Stonybrook Press, by Kaan Ozcan

“AI Therapy: Could Your Next Therapist be a Robot,” Stonybrook Press, by Kaan Ozcan, November 11, 2023: https://sbpress.com/2023/11/ai-therapy-could-your-next-therapist-be-a-robot/

“Why is Lived Experience Inclusion Essential to Mental Healthcare? Philosophers Weigh In,” Mad in America, by Samantha Lily and Ally...

“Does experiencing something from the first-person perspective generate new knowledge? This question has been debated in philosophy of mind, cognitive

“The Ghost and the Machine: Will AI therapists ever master the mysteries of human consciousness? As stretched mental health services...

In 2018 Serife Tekin, an associate professor at the State University of New York who specialises in the philosophy of

Medium article: “Can AI Replace Therapy: Hey Pi is the Conversational Chatbot that Works,” by Ginger Liu

“Can AI Replace Therapy: Hey Pi is the Conversational Chatbot that Works,” Medium, by Ginger Liu. July 19, 2023: https://medium.com/technology-hits/how-pi-ai-replaced-my-therapist-72c21eca6f85

“Meet ChatPal, the European Bot Against Loneliness,” Algorithm Watch, by Nathalie Koubayová

“Chatbot is very intrinsically, I think, a western concept because it kind of assumes that everyone who feels depressed or

Interviewed by Metro, UK: “Can an AI bot become your friend?”

‘It would be wrong to overstate its capacities for responding to human challenges such as curbing loneliness, or supporting mental

Most Read Blog Post for 2023: “Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry”

Tekin, Ş. 2023. Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry. Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic

Interviewed by NPR: “Therapy by chatbot? The promise and challenges in using AI for mental health”

"The hype and promise is way ahead of the research that shows its effectiveness," says Serife Tekin “Therapy by chatbot? The

“Possibly the first university philosophy course taught entirely in the metaverse: “Philosophy of Space Exploration, team taught by Serife Tekin...

"My biggest challenge is to get rid of their fears around science or space knowledge," Tekin said. "They always think