Is AI therapy a horrible idea?

Listen to this episode from Good Work with Dan Toomey on Spotify. Lots of people are using AI chatbots for therapy or therapy-like purposes. Investigator Dan Toomey boldly asks the question: should lots of people be using AI chatbots for therapy or therapy-like purposes? FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH THE FOLLOWING EXPERTS: Dr. Nina Vasan (Stanford professor, practicing psychiatrist, and leading researcher in digital wellbeing and AI safety) https://x.com/NinaVasan Stephen Schueller, PhD (Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine) https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-schueller-96a207123/ Vaile Wright, PhD (Senior Director of the Office of Health Care Innovation in the Practice Directorate at the American Psychological Association) https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-vaile-wright-ph-d-599000b8 Dr. Andrew Clark (an experienced child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist with a part time private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.). Read his Medium piece about his experiment with chatbot therapy: https://medium.com/@andrew56clark/adventures-in-ai-therapy-a-child-psychiatrist-goes-undercover-686e9c8eb439 Kashmir Hill (technology and privacy reporter for the New York Times) https://x.com/kashhill Kashmir's article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html Giada Pistilli, philosophy PhD (AI ethicist) https://x.com/GiadaPistilli Writers / creators: Jack Stebbins, Henry Stockwell, Dan Toomey Thumbnail designer: Tom Grillo Platform strategist: Jen Walsh -- GOOD WORK ON ALL PLATFORMS: @goodworkmb DAN ON IG: @dhtoomey SIGN UP FOR MORNING BREW HERE: https://www.morningbrew.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices