‘It cannot provide nuance’: UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Having a problem with your romantic relationship? Do you need to speak through something? Mark Zuckerberg He has a solution for this: chatbot. Meta CEO believes that everyone should have a processor, and if they don’t do it – artificial intelligence can do this job.
“I personally believe that everyone may have a processor,” he said last week. “It is like someone who can talk to him all day, or not necessarily throughout the day, but about any problems concerned about them and for people who have no treating person, I think everyone will get artificial intelligence.”
The Guardian spoke to mental health doctors who expressed their concern about the emerging role of artificial intelligence as a digital therapist. Professor Dam Tel WikisThe head of mental health and psychological science at the King’s College College in London, for example Chatbot, chatbot eating disorder It was withdrawn in 2023 After giving a dangerous advice.
“I think artificial intelligence is not at the level in which it can provide a difference and may actually suggest completely inappropriate work courses,” she said.
Wykes also sees Chatbots that are possible conflicts of existing relationships.
“One of the reasons why you have friends is to share personal things together and talk to them,” she says. “It is part of an alliance, a connection. If you use artificial intelligence for these types of purposes, you will not interfere with this relationship?”
For many artificial intelligence users, Zuckerberg determines just a growing common use of this strong technology. There are Chatbots for mental health such as NOAH and WYSA, while the trustee spoke to the Acts of “GRIEFTECH” users. Chatbots that refresh the dead.
There is also its informal use as virtual friends Or partnersWith robot programs like crafts. The owner of ChatGPT, Openai, admitted last week that a version of the pioneer Chatbot was responding to users in A tone was “excessive temptation” And withdraw it.
“Seriously, good for you to support yourself and control your private life,” he replied to the user, who claimed that they stopped taking medications and left their families because they were “responsible for the upcoming radio signals across the walls.”
In an interview with the Stratechery Bulletin, Zuckerberg, whose company has Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, added that artificial intelligence will not press people from your friendship but adds to it. “This will not be replaced by your friends, but it is likely to be more additional to many people’s lives,” he said.
He said that determining the outline of Meta’s Ai Chatbot – is available on its platforms – he said: “One of the uses Dead Amnesty International is mainly: “I want to speak through an issue.” “I need a difficult conversation with someone.” “I face a problem with my girlfriend,”; “I need a difficult conversation with work managers; “Help me play this roles.” Or “Help me know how I want to deal with this.”
In a separate interview last week, Zuckerberg said, “The average American has three friends, but has a request for 15” and AI can connect this gap.
“It is important” that mental health specialists will communicate with artificial intelligence in their field and “make sure they are informed of best practices. “Users appreciate and find more attractive.”. But he adds, more safety should be done.
“Supervision and organization will be a key to ensuring the safe and appropriate use of these technologies. It is concerned that we have not yet dealt with this in the United Kingdom.”
Last week, it was reported that the Meta’s Ai Studio, which allows users to create Chatbots with specific characters, was hosting robots that were shocked to be therapists – with fake accreditation data. A journalist in 404 media, a technical news site Instagram was putting these robots in its summary.
Meta said that AIS bears the evacuation of responsibility “indicates that the responses created by artificial intelligence to help people understand their borders.”
