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Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?

Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?

Update: 2024-08-08
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Daniel Cahn, co-founder of Slingshot AI, on the potential of AI in therapy. Why is anxiety and depression affecting a large population? To what extent are these real categories? Why is the mental health getting worse? How often do you want an AI to agree with you? What are the ethics of persuasive AI? You will discover all in this conversation.




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Daniel Cahn (who is also hiring ML engineers by the way!)


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TOC:


00:00:00 Intro


00:01:56 Therapy effectiveness vs drugs and societal implications


00:04:02 Mental health categories: Iatrogenesis and social constructs


00:10:19 Psychiatric treatment models and cognitive perspectives


00:13:30 AI design and human-like interactions: Intentionality debates


00:20:04 AI in therapy: Ethics, anthropomorphism, and loneliness mitigation


00:28:13 Therapy efficacy: Neuroplasticity, suffering, and AI placebos


00:33:29 AI's impact on human agency and cognitive modeling


00:41:17 Social media's effects on brain structure and behavior


00:50:46 AI ethics: Altering values and free will considerations


01:00:00 Work value perception and personal identity formation


01:13:37 Free will, agency, and mutable personal identity in therapy


01:24:27 AI in healthcare: Challenges, ethics, and therapy improvements


01:53:25 AI development: Societal impacts and cultural implications




Full references on YT VD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwX6OZyNC0 (and baked into mp3 metadata)

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Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?

Can AI therapy be more effective than drugs?

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