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In Focus-Parley | Is using AI-based tools for mental health useful or harmful?

In Focus-Parley | Is using AI-based tools for mental health useful or harmful?

Update: 2025-11-06

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Last week, Open AI reported that over a million people discuss suicide or self harm tendencies with ChatGPT every week. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools are now being developed specifically to support mental health, especially for students in institutions such as IIT Kharagpur and coaching institutions for engineering and medical entrance exams.

Is using AI-based tools for mental health useful or harmful? Here we discuss the issue.

Guests: Neeraj Kumar, Founder and CEO of Peak Mind; Jamila Koshy, Bengaluru-based psychiatrist

Host: Priscilla Jebaraj

Edited by Jude Weston

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In Focus-Parley | Is using AI-based tools for mental health useful or harmful?

In Focus-Parley | Is using AI-based tools for mental health useful or harmful?

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