AI Therapy and Emotional Atrophy

The recent rise of LLMs created an interesting and seldom discussed (until recently) niche - the use of AI for therapy.

There are shades of gray to this, and they share a common thread. AI can be used to make numerous areas of your life easier: work, decision making, navigating emotional situations, or even social situations.

All of this leads to one outcome: the outsourcing of your mental effort. What should be happening within, causing neural changes, learning, and building resilience, has now been outsourced to the oracle that is ChatGPT (or Claude, or Gemini, or...).