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'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe

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165 points distalx | 1 comments | 10 May 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.019s | source
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HPsquared ◴[10 May 25 16:54 UTC] No.43947093[source]▶
Sometimes an "unsafe" option is better than the alternative of nothing at all.
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tredre3 ◴[10 May 25 17:10 UTC] No.43947201[source]▶
Sometimes an "unsafe" option is not better than the alternative of nothing at all.
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Y_Y ◴[10 May 25 17:36 UTC] No.43947398{3}[source]▶
Sounds like we need more information than safe/not safe to make a sensible decision!

This is something that bugs me about medical ethics, that it's more important not to cause any harm than it is to prevent any.

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1. bildung ◴[10 May 25 17:44 UTC] No.43947465{4}[source]▶
I you look at the horrible things that happened in medical history, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study it's pretty clear why the ethics care more about not causing harm...
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