S4: E 10 AI and Mental Health. Progress or Regression?

Send us Fan Mail Erika and I discuss the double edge sword of AI. In a world, post covid, with already strained relationships and decreasing social skills do AI chat bots help the lonely? We talk cognitive offloading and why outsourcing thinking can quietly erode critical thinking, especially in schools and early professional training. I talk about a disturbing early example from the mid 2010s: suicide hotline chatbot pilots and the shrugging attitude around liability if a vulner...