#7 In Therapy, With SheikhaGPT

When reporter Yassmin Abdel-Magied's friend tells her she's been using ChatGPT as a therapist, Yassmin doesn't know what to think. The chatbot calls her friend "habibti." Gives her Islamic relationship advice. It's helping her reconnect with her faith in ways no human in her life has been able to. But it's also a product built by a tech company with no foundations in Islamic psychology.

This week on the show, Reporter Yassmin Abdel-Magied goes down a rabbit hole to try and understand Islam's relationship to mental health and whether AI can ever truly heal us. And she finds a Stanford professor asking herself the same questions.

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EPISODE CREDITS:

Reported by Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Produced by Taqwa Sadiq.

Edited by Sarah Qari and Salman Ahad Khan.

Music by Alexander Overington and Salman Ahad Khan.

Sound Design and Engineering by Alexander Overington.

Fact-checking by Heba Elorbany.

Illustration by Lina Jaradat.

Special thanks to Muhammad Faruque, Sidrah Hassan, Merve Nursoy-Demir, Jacki Shoyeb, Ndaa Hassan, Tasneem, and Talia Augustidis.