If you or your family use AI/ChatGPT as “therapy,” consider this warning that isn’t based on personal usage but from a client suddenly dropping out after years of therapy with me via an email in which she refused to give a reason for leaving or have a wrap-up/goodbye session. Rather than sounding like her, the email felt suspiciously like generic AI advice: no need for a final session or to explain why you’re ending therapy but make sure to express lots of gratitude and appreciation to your therapist for their help. In a clinical setting, we employ emotional, intrapersonal, social, and interpersonal intelligence. But, because AI “therapists” lack these types of intuitive knowing from personal and professional experience, all they can provide is the impression or impersonation of a human therapist’s take on problems and solutions. A major deficit is that AI doesn’t know what it doesn’t know and, therefore, can’t...
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