My stance on Artificial Intelligence

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by therapists and other healthcare providers is growing at an exponential rate. The majority of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), which therapists use for scheduling, documentation, and billing, have add-on features that users can pay an additional fee to access. These features claim to assist with treatment planning, documentation and progress notes, scheduling, billing, and other administrative and clinical tasks.

I am vehemently opposed to AI, and you have my word that I am not - and will not - use AI, especially in my work as a therapy provider. Your sessions will not be recorded so that AI can generate treatment plans and notes; information about who you are will not be fed to an AI for any reason; and our work together will not be used to train AI models.

I take my work seriously and I take privacy seriously. There are too many weak spots and unknowns that I believe greatly compromise client privacy, placing client’s personal information at risk. Further, I take ethics seriously and feel that AI by its very design, in addition to its economic, social, environmental, and policy impacts, is unethical and harmful.

I will continue to share my perspective on AI in future posts, especially as it continues to dominate current events.