{"id":1072,"date":"2025-07-04T08:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:08:00","slug":"listening-algorithms-will-ai-replace-psycotherapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/listening-algorithms-will-ai-replace-psycotherapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Algorithms &#8211;\u00a0 Will AI replace psychotherapists?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when artificial intelligence steps into the therapist\u2019s chair? AI is constantly evolving and has become more humanlike than ever before. Some people are turning to language model AI tools like ChatGPT, while others use mental health chatbots specifically developed by therapists for this purpose. But the big question remains: Can a machine truly understand human pain, trauma, and help us heal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this project, we explore AI\u2019s growing role in the world of psychotherapy. Will it make therapy more accessible, affordable, and free from stigma? What potential risks does it carry? And is it really worth it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Multimedia feature<\/strong> from Davit Tsakadze,&nbsp;Laura Pfundner, Alberte Caroline Greve and Anastasiia Kovtun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mentor:<\/strong> Tatiana Kolesnychenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pageflow.jour.at\/teasers\/ismj-2025-03\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pageflow.jour.at\/teasers\/ismj-2025-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link to story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> \u00a9Davit Tsakadze<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when artificial intelligence steps into the therapist\u2019s chair? AI is constantly evolving and has become more humanlike than ever before. Some people are turning to language model AI tools like ChatGPT, while others use mental health chatbots specifically developed by therapists for this purpose. But the big question remains: Can a machine truly&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/listening-algorithms-will-ai-replace-psycotherapists\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0434\u0430\u043b\u0456 &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Listening Algorithms &#8211;\u00a0 Will AI replace psychotherapists?\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"awp_my_custom_meta":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-ismj-2025","category-projects","tag-10-ismj-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimediajournalism.eu\/ukr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}