Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy
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Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy
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Building a computer to find the answer to the meaning of life is a joke.
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I am sure that chatbots will do a "I cannot provide mental health advice" disclaimer and continue doing what they want, but there's probably some very solid reasons in Illinois to do this.
In particular, Illinois has a legal requirement that health insurance must cover mental health services at an equivalent level as physical health services, including care with no end date for chronic conditions. So whether or not a chatbot counts as mental health therapy is likely quite relevant on whether or not Illinoisans can bill insurance for it.
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This is banning claiming your AI is a licensed therapist in the State of Illinois. If you have a court order to attend therapy for drug abuse related reasons you can’t just use ChatGPT according to this law.
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This is banning claiming your AI is a licensed therapist in the State of Illinois. If you have a court order to attend therapy for drug abuse related reasons you can’t just use ChatGPT according to this law.
It's also banning licensed therapists from using AI. FTA:
> Licensed therapists in Illinois are now forbidden from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks
Your doctor can diagnose your cancer with AI, but your therapist can't diagnose your ADHD with AI.
Stupid law is stupid.
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#8Good. It's difficult to imagine a worse use case for LLMs.
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Since you are referencing 42, let me draw from another piece of literature to respond.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
It's not the machines themselves that are inherently tyrannical, it's the human will to dominate now supercharge by technology.
LLM hallucinations aside, unregulated artificial intelligence for mental health therapy is a very slippery slope. We cannot allow, say, advertisers and brands to have access to the mind of our most vulnerables so directly.