The Promise and Challenges of AI
APA's Monitor on Psychology surveys psychologists shaping AI for mental health, featuring Ash's Derrick Hull on NLP for the therapeutic alliance and patient–therapist matching.
APA Monitor on Psychology
APA: The promise and challenges of AI (featuring Derrick Hull)
Key Finding
Psychologists, including Ash's Derrick Hull, frame AI as an adjunct to — not a replacement for — human mental health care.
Summary
In APA's Monitor on Psychology, journalist Zara Abrams surveys how psychologists are shaping the development and responsible use of AI, including in mental health. The article features clinical psychologist Thomas Derrick Hull — now founding Clinical Lead at Ash by Slingshot AI — on using natural language processing to detect breakdowns in the therapeutic alliance, improve patient–therapist matching, and on users' tendency to prefer chatbots that aren't disguised as humans.
Researchers
Abrams, Z. (2021, November 1). The promise and challenges of AI. Monitor on Psychology, 52(8), 62. American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/11/cover-artificial-intelligence
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