Talk at Simon Fraser University, January 2025
Mental Disorders, Science, and Narratives. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. January 24, 2025. Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada
AI and the Future of Psychiatry the Focus of a Presentation Hosted by the NE Ostapenko Center for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare
“We should stop calling these apps a medical device or tool or therapist until we prove and show that they are efficacious as medical tools. I think that the researchers …
Radio Interview: “Worries about AI; A Treatable Health Condition; Fixing Injured Joints”
“Worries about AI; A Treatable Health Condition; Fixing Injured Joints” Upstate Medical University’s HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Jan. 24, 2024; WRVO, NPR: https://www.upstate.edu/informed/2024/011424-radioshow.php
“AI Therapy: Could Your Next Therapist be a Robot,” Stonybrook Press, by Kaan Ozcan
“AI Therapy: Could Your Next Therapist be a Robot,” Stonybrook Press, by Kaan Ozcan, November 11, 2023: https://sbpress.com/2023/11/ai-therapy-could-your-next-therapist-be-a-robot/
“Why is Lived Experience Inclusion Essential to Mental Healthcare? Philosophers Weigh In,” Mad in America, by Samantha Lily and Ally Riddle
“Does experiencing something from the first-person perspective generate new knowledge? This question has been debated in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience, with literature containing complex analyses and experiments …
“The Ghost and the Machine: Will AI therapists ever master the mysteries of human consciousness? As stretched mental health services turn to tech solutions, Silicon Valley is cashing in – with sometimes alarming consequences,” New Statesman, by Jenny Kleeman
In 2018 Serife Tekin, an associate professor at the State University of New York who specialises in the philosophy of psychiatry, was targeted by Facebook adverts for the “mental health …
Medium article: “Can AI Replace Therapy: Hey Pi is the Conversational Chatbot that Works,” by Ginger Liu
“Can AI Replace Therapy: Hey Pi is the Conversational Chatbot that Works,” Medium, by Ginger Liu. July 19, 2023: https://medium.com/technology-hits/how-pi-ai-replaced-my-therapist-72c21eca6f85
“Meet ChatPal, the European Bot Against Loneliness,” Algorithm Watch, by Nathalie Koubayová
“Chatbot is very intrinsically, I think, a western concept because it kind of assumes that everyone who feels depressed or sad wants to talk about their experiences, or seek help …
Interviewed by Metro, UK: “Can an AI bot become your friend?”
‘It would be wrong to overstate its capacities for responding to human challenges such as curbing loneliness, or supporting mental health in general.’ “Can an AI bot become your friend?,” …
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Most Read Blog Post for 2023: “Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry”
Tekin, Ş. 2023. Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry. Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Imperfect Cognitions: Participatory Interactive Objectivity in …
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