It's not inevitable that LLMs will be providing mental health care; it's already happening. Terrible idea or not, it's probably helpful to think of LLMs not as

It's not inevitable that LLMs will be providing mental health care; it's already happening. Terrible idea or not, it's probably helpful to think of LLMs not as "AI mental healthcare" but rather as another form of potentially bad advice. From a therapeutic perspective, Claude is not all that different from the patient having a friend who is sometimes counterproductive. Or the patient reading a self-help book that doesn't align with your therapeutic perspective.