Fascinatng roundup on the paradox of AI in mental health. The story about that founder shutting down their own therapy app becuase it was too dangerous perfectly illustrates the ethical tightrope here. We desperately need to scale mental health services through tech, but as your Ross Harper interview points out, the attention to detail required to get it right means most attempts will fail catastrophically.
Ethical tightrope is a very good descriptor for how it feels. I did a talk at DHF in Australia last year and talked about how both questions are in play... 'can we afford to do this?' and 'can we NOT afford to do this?' As you say, the key is doing it safely and making it very clear who is going about it with level of clinical rigour that Ross describes and making sure that is the standard
Fascinatng roundup on the paradox of AI in mental health. The story about that founder shutting down their own therapy app becuase it was too dangerous perfectly illustrates the ethical tightrope here. We desperately need to scale mental health services through tech, but as your Ross Harper interview points out, the attention to detail required to get it right means most attempts will fail catastrophically.
Ethical tightrope is a very good descriptor for how it feels. I did a talk at DHF in Australia last year and talked about how both questions are in play... 'can we afford to do this?' and 'can we NOT afford to do this?' As you say, the key is doing it safely and making it very clear who is going about it with level of clinical rigour that Ross describes and making sure that is the standard