Source: SFGate
“Since San Francisco’s OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, millions of people have made artificial intelligence chatbots a part of their everyday lives, in a surge of interest that rapidly outpaced research about the tech’s impacts. But now, the academic community is catching up — and some researchers from Stanford University are throwing cold water on one of ChatGPT’s popular uses. A new study from Stanford computer science Ph.D. student Jared Moore and several co-authors has ‘touched a nerve’, Moore told SFGATE, with its argument that chatbots like ChatGPT should not replace therapists because of their dangerous tendencies to express stigma, encourage delusions and respond inappropriately in critical moments. The findings come as the use of chatbots grows more normalized for therapy and more — a YouGov poll last year found that more than half of people ages 18 to 29 were comfortable with replacing a human therapist with AI for mental health discussions — and as companies big and small peddle AI therapy tech.” (06/18/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/stanford-researchers-chatgpt-bad-therapist-20383990.php