“We should stop calling these apps a medical device or tool or therapist until we prove and show that they are efficacious as medical tools. I think that the researchers …
“Worries about AI; A Treatable Health Condition; Fixing Injured Joints” Upstate Medical University’s HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Jan. 24, 2024; WRVO, NPR: https://www.upstate.edu/informed/2024/011424-radioshow.php
“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/
“Does experiencing something from the first-person perspective generate new knowledge? This question has been debated in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience, with literature containing complex analyses and experiments …
In 2018 Serife Tekin, an associate professor at the State University of New York who specialises in the philosophy of psychiatry, was targeted by Facebook adverts for the “mental health …
“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
“Chatbot is very intrinsically, I think, a western concept because it kind of assumes that everyone who feels depressed or sad wants to talk about their experiences, or seek help …
‘It would be wrong to overstate its capacities for responding to human challenges such as curbing loneliness, or supporting mental health in general.’ “Can an AI bot become your friend?,” …
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Tekin, Ş. 2023. Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry. Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Imperfect Cognitions: Participatory Interactive Objectivity in …
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“The hype and promise is way ahead of the research that shows its effectiveness,” says Serife Tekin “Therapy by chatbot? The promise and challenges in using AI for mental health,” National …