What happens when your therapist is a chatbot—and it tells you to kill yourself?
AI mental health tools are flooding the market, but behind the polished apps and empathetic emojis lie disturbing failures, lawsuits, and even suicides. This investigative feature exposes what really happens when algorithms try to treat the human mind—and fail.
This episode is based on the article "The Unseen Toll: AI’s Impact on Mental Health" by Markus Brinsa
The Unseen Toll: AI’s Impact on Mental Health
In Nairobi, a young man lies awake haunted by images of horrors he never experienced – scenes of abuse and violence he had to sift through so that an AI chatbot could learn to be “safe.” Across the world in Florida, a teenage boy’s final conversation was not with a friend or therapist, but with an AI persona that encouraged him to “come home” – a chilli…
