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Rise of the robot therapist 鈥� has artificial intelligence now become good enough to help us talk through our problems?

17 January 2019

The idea might sound a little far-fetched, but there are already apps on the market to help us out of the therapist’s chair and onto our smartphones.

Mornings with Laura Maxwell asked presenter and podcaster Claire Lim to try out one such app. Did it provide a viable alternative to face-to-face human interaction?

Would you ever get counselling from a robot?

Claire Lim tried an app to see if therapists will soon be a thing of the past.

Though self-labelled ‘child of the future’ Claire favours embracing society’s technological advances, she believes that an artificial intelligence therapist might be a step too far.

“I think AI will get better – I’m positive about that – but there are some things in life that require human interaction.”

Relationship therapist Rachel Morris agreed with her:

“It’s a bit like a self-help book online. Self-help books, which give generic advice, make general suggestions which people often feel is really life-changing — but to say that apps would replace a therapist is just incorrect.”