In some ways, AI therapy can be comparable to human therapists.

AI therapy bots’ are more effective in the short-term and less so in the long-term.

There is plenty of interventions that AI therapy bots cannot do.

The whiplash around AI these days is real: One minute, we’re hearing from the most powerful AI leaders of our time that the technology could arguably kill us all. A minute later, we’re seeing an ad for the latest AI therapy-bot or app appear in our algorithm, offering a cheaper, more convenient alternative to human therapists.

All this is happening within the larger geopolitical and environmental context of the debate surrounding AI data centers and the enormous ecological cost of running these systems. This begs the question: Can you, or should you, consider an AI therapist?

Human Versus AI Throwdown: Therapy Edition

If we momentarily put aside carbon footprint concerns, recent research........

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