A Clinician's Field Guide to Vetting AI Mental Health Tools
Psychology Today | 02.08.2026 21:24
Lately I keep noticing how people talk about ChatGPT. Not "I used ChatGPT" or "I asked an AI," but "I talked to Chat about it." Present tense, first name, like a person. I've never once said "I talked to Claude" about something I worked through with an AI tool, even though I was, quite literally, typing to it in real time. "Talked to" is a different verb. It's the verb we use for people.
