#295: AI Expert Warns Against Using AI as Your Therapist - David Dean

Yeah, so I think it comes down to responsibility and accountability.

No matter how you use AI, you are still responsible and accountable for it, no matter what.

So...

If you're using AI to help identify signals to kind of help guide you on the right path, because I think it comes down to choices and options.

I can ask AI what choices, what signals lead to choices, and those choices lead to what options.

There's nothing wrong with that, asking those types of questions.

It's when I decide to... live with it like i i'm not it doesn't it stops there if the narrative is like can you help me continue the journey and guidance on where there i may want to continue looking for those signals uh there rather than have it be an emotional support act mechanism with it like for example if i were to go and uh and meet with you know a therapist with it you know and i'm like I don't know what to talk to them about.

I have a bunch of issues and problems and challenges with it.

And I talk about this in a workplace.

This is where the self-realization is.

Then just start talking.

You have a mobile phone.

You have dictation device.

Just start talking.

Just start writing your heart out.

This is how I feel.

This is what's going on.

These are our problems.

These are our issues around it.

And whether that's personal or the workplace, then you ask AI, what does this tell me? What is something that I can take action with to go and do something with it? whether that's the workplace and personal life with it, that gives me some opportunity to basically take a human approach to a signal that has been identified.

That's really, and you're making a judgment call as a part of this.

I am dividing the line as like, it's now my responsibility to do something with this.

It's not AI's responsibility.

You're giving it too much judgment and too much authority with it.

Take a step back.

Yeah, so I think it comes down to responsibility and accountability.

No matter how you use AI, you are still responsible and accountable for it, no matter what.

So...

If you're using AI to help identify signals to kind of help guide you on the right path, because I think it comes down to choices and options.

I can ask AI what choices, what signals lead to choices, and those choices lead to what options.

There's nothing wrong with that, asking those types of questions.

It's when I decide to... live with it like i i'm not it doesn't it stops there if the narrative is like can you help me continue the journey and guidance on where there i may want to continue looking for those signals uh there rather than have it be an emotional support act mechanism with it like for example if i were to go and uh and meet with you know a therapist with it you know and i'm like I don't know what to talk to them about.

I have a bunch of issues and problems and challenges with it.

And I talk about this in a workplace.

This is where the self-realization is.

Then just start talking.

You have a mobile phone.

You have dictation device.

Just start talking.

Just start writing your heart out.

This is how I feel.

This is what's going on.

These are our problems.

These are our issues around it.

And whether that's personal or the workplace, then you ask AI, what does this tell me? What is something that I can take action with to go and do something with it? whether that's the workplace and personal life with it, that gives me some opportunity to basically take a human approach to a signal that has been identified.

That's really, and you're making a judgment call as a part of this.

I am dividing the line as like, it's now my responsibility to do something with this.

It's not AI's responsibility.

You're giving it too much judgment and too much authority with it.

Take a step back.