Anyone who's interested in this should check out <https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctors-vs-ai-can-chat...>, where 3 professional therapists grade ChatGPT.

It's lengthy but it's fascinating.

Everyone can reach their own conclusions, but my read on this is LLMs continue to be incredible research tools. If you want to dive into what's been written about the brain, managing stress, tricky relationships, or the human experience generally, it will pull together all sorts of stuff for you that isn't bad.

I think we're we've gotten into serious trouble is the robot will play a role other than helpful researcher. I would have the machine operate like this:

> As a robot I can't give advice, but for people in situations similar to the one you've described, here's some of the ways they may approach it.

Then proceed exclusively in the third person, noting what's from trained professionals and what's from reddit as it goes. The substance may be the same, but it should be very clear that this is a guide to other documents, not a person talking to you.