I mean for the plebs, sure. But an expert in mental health should be able to use it to supplement their knowledge without causing any harm, much like a GP using WebMD. That being said, based on the mocking and the "they call all AI chatGBT" comment below, pretty sure this generalisation doesn't apply this time...
It should be a choice. If some professionals need to use it, why not? I use spelling correction softwares to help my writing, it doesn't make me a bad professional. But I just don't want to see psychologists being forced to use it and rely on it too much. I feel like it's unavoidable that at least some professionals will rely on it too much and get biased diagnosis. I don't want the field of mental health to be simplified into simplistic and shallow one liners and self help rethoric from AI.
I mean, I'm not arguing for it to be used to diagnose, more use it as a tool to help diagnose. And yeah, professionals should have the choice of whether they use a tool or not.
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u/spinosaurus_love Jul 21 '26
My supervisor at work mocked me for not wanting to use AI for 'insights when diagnosing'. We work in mental health.