The "practicing unlicensed psychotherapy" part needs to be enforced in a big way. Insurance companies and startups are champing at the bit to force people into "AI therapists."
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Also, it's an avenue significantly less likely to run into the 1st Amendment during enforcement. Product liability probably isn't going to stick here but unlicensed practice of medicine probably will.
aug 26, 2025, 9:53 pm • 15 2 • view
From your mouth to the regulatory boards' ears. (Or rather, state legislatures' more likely.) (This is exactly what the "no regulations on AI for 10 years" clause in the BBB was trying to prevent.)
aug 26, 2025, 10:00 pm • 6 0 • view
I wonder how the public and professional liability underwriters are feeling about that
aug 26, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Well AI Chatbots don't take out professional liability policies so no problem for them there!
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 7 0 • view
😬 The Air Canada example might be worth attending to there
aug 26, 2025, 10:10 pm • 10 0 • view
Work at a school where they introduced an "AI backed" peer for students to talk to. Happily, as far as I know, nobody has used it.
aug 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 12 1 • view
They're talking to somebody's chatbot, apparently. In shocking numbers.
aug 26, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
They've always ran on "Move fast and break things". That was fine when they did trivial little websites where people could upload Pictures. Now they're breaking people.
aug 26, 2025, 8:08 pm • 96 4 • view
disrupting the suicide forum industry by ingesting suicide how-to forums and then regurgitating that info as a pretend therapist robot
aug 26, 2025, 10:08 pm • 30 1 • view
"who could have forseen this happening" other than basically anyone who said "this is going to happen"
aug 26, 2025, 10:56 pm • 32 0 • view
I've just finished listening to Careless People on Audible.... one of those trivia websites (loss of l possibly deliberate) and you quote their mantra got awfully bad terribly quickly
aug 26, 2025, 10:28 pm • 4 0 • view
The ones you could upload pics to broke enough people this is even worse
aug 27, 2025, 7:35 am • 2 0 • view
Absolutely not something to base the business off of. I can maybe whip up a heavy guardrail system to help tide someone over, but only as a free "self help" tool.
aug 26, 2025, 8:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I use tele-therapy and it violates the rules if I'm in a different *state* as my therapist and yet these assholes want to have chatbots that work nationwide? 🙄😤
aug 27, 2025, 10:37 pm • 2 0 • view
No license, no state licensing laws violated!
aug 28, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view