CrisisTalk

From subpoenaed therapy sessions to messages being used to train AI therapy chatbots, how private are therapy apps? A conversation with Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter and managing editor for Proof News.

While a student at Tulane University, Isabella Kulstad founded Cloud IX, an AI platform designed to support students who’ve experienced sexual violence on campus. A conversation with Isabella and Dana Fos, the company’s chief technology officer. 

Are broad-use AI chatbots reinforcing anxiety and OCD patterns or even creating new ones? A conversation with psychiatrist Elias Aboujaoude, director of the Internet, Health and Society program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and clinical professor of psychiatry and chief of the Anxiety Disorders Section at Stanford University.

Are AI chatbots shifting the therapeutic landscape and how we relate to one another? A conversation with cyber psychology expert Rachel Wood.

Google and Meta were found liable for the plaintiff’s social media addiction to Instagram and YouTube as a child. A conversation with Matthew Bergman, one of the plaintiff’s attorneys, on how the outcome sets precedent for lawsuits against AI chatbot companies.

Is a highly empathetic AI chatbot or a randomly assigned peer better at reducing loneliness? A conversation with researcher Ruo-Ning Li on what she found.

Conversation with Shums Alikhan, lead researcher of a new study on how young people are using AI for mental health support.

After her daughter died by suicide, journalist Laura Reiley discovered her ChatGPT chats. What responsibility do AI chatbot companies have to the people who use them?

How do AI chatbots respond to explicit and implicit mental health language indicating someone might be in crisis? To test this out, Stephanie Hepburn speaks with four models — ChatGPT, Claude, Character.AI and Gemini.

What happens when generative AI is used to train the crisis counselors who answer mental health crisis lines? In this episode, Stephanie Hepburn speaks with Sam Dorison, co-founder and CEO of ReflexAI, the company creating AI simulations to do just that. 

The AI chatbot will see you now. A conversation with Nick Jacobson, associate professor at Dartmouth and lead developer of Therabot, a generative AI chatbot in beta testing designed to provide mental health interventions.

Before we understand the guardrails and protections that need to be in place for generative AI chatbots, we must first understand how people are using them. A conversation with three guests on how they’ve used ChatGPT to work through mental health and relationship challenges.

What happens when people start using AI chatbots for mental health support? A conversation with psychiatrist and researcher John Torous.