Episode 17 - AI Chatbots as Psychoanalysts

Hello everyone and welcome back to a new episode of becoming the product. Today, I'll cover some of my findings and interests regarding AI Chatbots as potential psychoanalysts. We will dive into the current obstacles of such an entreprise, and question how psychoanalysis can help us rethink mental health struggles. You can support my projects! By buying a digital version of my books: payhip.com/Becomingtheproduct or through Patreon www.patreon.com/user?u=83560161 Thanks for listening Instagram : @billuartmc @_thexry_ Substack for writing and news: becomingtheproduct.substack.com/ References Amirkhani, Fatemeh, Zahra Norouzi, and Saeedeh Babai. "Psychotherapist Bots: Transference and Countertransference Issues." International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) 2023, Chicago, IL. Apprich, Clemens. "Secret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning." Digital Culture & Society 4, no. 1 (2018): 29-44. Boden, Margaret A. Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. Clarendon Press, 2006. DuCharme, Jamie. "Can AI Chatbots Ever Replace Human Therapists?" Time, October 4, 2023. https://time.com/6320378/ai-therapy-chatbots/. Ehrenberg, Alain. Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. Holohan, M., and A. Fiske. "Like I'm Talking to a Real Person: Exploring the Meaning of Transference for the Use and Design of AI-Based Applications in Psychotherapy." Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021): 720476. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720476. Zeavin, Hannah. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. Existing apps: https://www.cass.ai/x2ai-home https://www.wysa.com/ https://woebothealth.com/ https://theresanaiforthat.com/s/psychoanalysis/ ChatGPT - Ze Psychoanalyst Jung GPT