There are critical gaps in the accessibility and affordability of mental health services worldwide: In some countries, you have to wait for years for therapy, in others you get at max one session per month covered by the health insurance, in others therapies for particular conditions like cluster B personality disorders are virtually nonexistent.
We want to leverage LLMs to fill these gaps and complement regular therapy. Our product is in development. We’ve based it on Gemini and want it to interface with widely used messaging apps, so users can interact with it like they would with a friend or coach.
I’ve previously founded or worked for several charities and spent a few years in earning to give for work on invertebrate welfare and s-risks from AI.
You can get up to speed on my thinking at Impartial Priorities.
Interesting, thanks! How would you define moralizers, stabilizers, and challengers?
I feel like “economic and social structures reward pathological versions of echoism, sovereignism, and narcissism” is a minor factor. Most of life sucks as a result of those adaptations, and when they come in handy in some situations (that probably resemble typical childhood situations), it doesn’t offset how much they suck in all other situations. But there’s the combined problem that people have had these adaptations from early on and so don’t know anything better, don’t know what they’re missing out on, and that the steps that would lead in the direction of healing feel like suicide.
Maybe we need more content that contrasts secure, non-disordered ways to engage with the world against disordered ways (but in an authentic, nuanced, relatable way) to drive home the effectiveness of the first?