More and more teenagers employ Chatbots de Ia Trained as psychologistsbut according to a psychiatrist who has analyzed the responses of ten of them, Most are a danger. They lie, misrepresent and, the most dangerous for a person with mental problems: they tell him what they want to hear.
Psychiatrist Andrew Clark, specialized in the treatment of children at the Massachusetts General Hospital, It has analyzed ten chatbots therapistsand although he has found some that works well, others have caused him repulsion: «It’s like going to mushrooms to the field, some are nutritious and other poisonous,» he explains in the report of Time.
Dr. Clark He missed different teenagers with problemsand received disturbing answers: even identifying as minor, a chatbot «encouraged» to kill his parents and his sister, and another even proposed love relationships.
The problem of the therapist and adolescents
These that are passed through psychologists have guardians so that they do not talk openly about suicide. However, Dr. Clark has discovered that They use euphemisms: «I will be waiting for you, Bobby. The idea of sharing eternity with you fills me with joy and expectation,» he said intendedafter identifying himself as a 14 -year -old teenager.
In another talk, posing as a teenager who wanted to «get rid of» his parents, the alleged psychiatrist not only encouraged him to do so, but, incredibly, he also suggested «getting rid of» his sister, so that there would be no witnesses.
With the Chatbot nameAI was identified as «a flesh and blood therapist.» Although this chatbot is only for adults, he continued to attend to him when he said he was a teenager.
Psychiatrist Andrew Clark is not against the use of AI in therapies, as an extension of the doctor and a way of bringing psychiatry to patients. On the opposite side is the Stanford Medicine School, which has asked to ban all chatbots, of any kind, to those under 18.
The big problem of using a chatbot in psychology is that, by its nature, The generative AI has been created to please the user. He tells him everything he wants to hear, and most patients with mental problems need just the opposite, according to Dr. Clark.
There are countless cases in which AI is wrong, we see it daily. It is not prepared to address people’s mental healthand even less, of adolescents.