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“It’s creating an illusion of help.” – Serife Tekin “The Problem with Mental Health Bots”, WIRED, Grace Browne, October 1, 2022: https://www.wired.com/story/mental-health-chatbots/
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Body language and tone are important to traditional therapy, Tekin said, but Woebot doesn’t recognize such nonverbal communication. “It’s not at all like how psychotherapy works,” Tekin said. “This teen …
“The pandemic hit and this technology basically skyrocketed. Everywhere I turn now there’s a new chatbot promising to deliver new things,” said Serife Tekin, an associate philosophy professor at the …
“These products are developing so fast, and there’s so much enthusiasm,” said Serife Tekin, a University of Texas at San Antonio professor who has studied the regulation of mental health …
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“I think it’s extremely problematic to be surveilling and monitoring employees that way, because this will then imply that it will be in the employee’s records,” Tekin added. At some …
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