How AI Mental Health Support Should Actually Work

Full Episode 🔗:    • AI, Mental Health, and the Relational Bedr...   Dr. Rachel Wood lays out three principles for AI support that actually helps rather than harms. It should be: • Pro-social (pushing you toward real connection, not replacing it) • A group sport (shared openly, not kept secretive) • A tool, not a relationship. The reason most AI support falls short of all three comes down to a single truth: a chatbot can never say "me too, I get it," because it hasn't walked the road of suffering. And when you give your pain to something that can't relate to it, there's a void in the balm that should come through the act of sharing. This is a clip from Episode 16 of The Human Conversation with Doug Atkinson, featuring Dr. Rachel Wood *********** Dr. Rachel Wood   / rachelwoodphd   https://www.aimentalhealthcollective.... *********** The Human Conversation is powered by Insight Jam Join the human conversation around AI at https://insightjam.com/ Sign up for our newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger: https://bit.ly/HumanAINewsletter *********** Chapters 00:00 Three Principles for Safer AI Support 00:22 Pro-Social: Pushing You Back Into the Real World 01:00 Group Sport: Share Your Chatbot Threads 01:23 The Illusion of Privacy and Confidentiality 02:50 Third Principle: Tool, Not a Relationship 03:46 Technologies Supposed to Connect Us Haven't 04:20 Silicon and Metal Instead of Flesh and Blood 04:40 "Me Too" — What a Chatbot Can Never Say