About an AI mental health companion app with real-time voice chat.
Has this happened?
Yes 12 (10%)Not sure 33 (28%)No 75 (62%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About an AI mental health companion app with real-time voice chat.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
As an old retired psychotherapist I find this obscene.
We therapists work within the human relationship, the unspoken, with thoughts, behaviours and feelings, with incremental changes in facial expressions, voice intonation and body language. Congruence and empathy. The ability to be real.
We have a lifetime of personal therapy and supervision to protect our clients from our unresolved shit.
who is going to protect those clients from AI?
AI will never be able to do any of those things.