If people are using AI chatbots for advice and therapy... what does that mean for the future of the mental health practitioner field?
This stark question came up during my guest lecture at NYU Silver School of Social Work from one of the students.
We had just covered an overview of the statistics of c...
What's one of your key differentiators professionally?
It's not intelligence, because that is becoming less and less scarce. I mean, you can even borrow intelligence nowadays.
Your differentiator is 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.
It's the fact that you have failed and done things wrong enough times to kno...
I'm speaking at the Virtual Summit on AI and the Future of Wellbeing by the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).
AI is already reshaping how people pursue wellbeing, resilience and personal growth. While new tools promise speed and scale, many are being developed without meaningful ...
More alone than ever.
More connected than ever.
You are living in 3 places at once.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 - "𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗻"
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵
It took your real life and turned it into 0's and 1's. And now you can communicate daily with people across the globe you'll never meet in person as well as sh...
An absolute delight to speak at Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University last week!
This hidden gem of a campus is robust with stellar faculty, remarkable students, and engaged donors and community stakeholders.
We spent time diving into today's most pressing topics:
𝟭) 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗻...
How to find clarity when the lines are blurry...
I'm often mulling over how AI chatbots are being woven into the relational fabric of society. Even general purpose models house a role fluidity that moves users from project planning to personal advice to text message refinement within a single thread....
Better be nice to AI so that when it takes over the world it's nice to you back.
I've heard people say variations of this dystopian (utopian?) hype for a long time.
But when you break the concept down, it's actually something that's already pulsing through our online world.
Generative LLMs learn from...
This is most definitely already in your life: relational asymmetry.
Most relationships have some degree of relational asymmetry (meaning unequal levels or a mismatch in dynamics)
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀:
During interactions we engage in sociomorphing, or we sociomorphize...
Friction Maxxing.
You've heard of this, right?
It's the practice of deliberately choosing inconvenience over efficiency.
Practical examples of friction maxxing include:
▪️ creating a hand-written note instead of a text
▪️ navigating without GPS
▪️ walking on a trail instead of a treadmill
The entire conc...
AI will replace everything. Eventually.
Right now we have 3 distinct working categories:
1. Human
2. AI
3. Human-AI collaboration
We talk a lot about what sets us apart as humans...
Creativity
Inter-personal skills
Socioemotional capacities
Etc.
But I'm curious... what happens when the line between human an...
"Once the realm of science fiction, human-AI relationships are becoming normal aspects of daily life. While generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have become common tools for many users, a new wave of AI apps, such as Replika, Character AI, and dozens more, are specifically de...
This is how psychotherapists feel about AI...
(Spoiler alert...it's a mixed bag). The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society asked their 18,500 members to share insights. Here's what they found...
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜
"For many practitioners, the most significant consideration is not wheth...