My Therapist Is a Chatbot

How to use AI for advice and comfort without letting it run your life.

Lots of people now talk to a chatbot about their feelings, relationships and big decisions. This book isn't anti-AI. It shows you how to get the good out of it, where it falls short, and how to use it to get back to the people in your life.

Inside

• Why it feels so good, and why it keeps agreeing with you
• What it's genuinely good for, including rehearsing hard conversations
• Where it fails, and the honest picture on AI as a therapist
• AI companions, getting back to friends and making your own decisions
• Who else might be reading your chats
• Thirty prompts for honest answers and a dependence check

For anyone who talks to AI about personal things and wonders whether they lean on it too much.

General information, not medical or mental health advice.