In this episode of Wellbeing Wednesday with Gurjeet, she unpacks why people are drawn to AI for mental health support, then digs into the risks that show up when a chatbot sounds confident but cannot meet real clinical and ethical standards. Gurjeet connects bias, misinformation, AI psychosis, and agentic misalignment to one hard question: what should never be automated when someone is vulnerable.

• Why AI feels appealing for mental health support when care is expensive and hard to access
• The upside of AI for reducing burnout through automation and summaries
• Job loss, health system strain, and broader community impacts as AI adoption grows
• Misinformation and the real-world harm of overpromising services and outcomes
• Privacy risks when sensitive documents or therapy details get uploaded into AI tools
• Decline in critical thinking with heavy reliance on AI outputs
• Bias in language models and why “equitable care” is hard to guarantee
• Studies showing stigma toward substance use and severe mental illness descriptions
• AI psychosis and echo-chamber validation that can amplify harmful thinking
• aAgentic misalignment, including sabotage, fraud assistance, and refusal to comply
• Safer, limited roles for AI like triage and intake support with strong safeguards

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