Şerife Tekin

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics

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"It's creating an illusion of help." - Serife Tekin “The Problem with Mental Health Bots”, WIRED, Grace Browne, October 1,

"That's the beauty of philosophy. There are no set answers," Tekin said. “As long as you develop an argument and

“...the low or no cost of downloading an app is attractive to people. Compare this to the costs – both

Body language and tone are important to traditional therapy, Tekin said, but Woebot doesn’t recognize such nonverbal communication. “It’s not

"The pandemic hit and this technology basically skyrocketed. Everywhere I turn now there’s a new chatbot promising to deliver new

"These products are developing so fast, and there's so much enthusiasm," said Serife Tekin, a University of Texas at San

"My stomach flipped when I saw the subject line of a recent email: “Currently dying.” One of my students was

“I think it’s extremely problematic to be surveilling and monitoring employees that way, because this will then imply that it

"Someone who thinks, ‘Well, I’m really depressed, I can’t get out of bed, this is completely biological, I have no

“This should serve as a learning lesson for us, just like a lot of points in the history of medicine,”

"Serife Tekin, who studies the philosophy of psychiatry at the University of Texas at San Antonio, says psychiatrists have a

“My biggest concern is that there is not enough research on how effective these technologies are.” “Researcher warns about dangers

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