When Don Grant, a California-based psychologist and fellow at the American Psychological Association, told a young patient to stop smoking marijuana, he didn’t realize that he was competing with an AI chatbot for his patient’s ear. In the following session, he discovered the chatbot had told the patient that his advice to stop using marijuana was wrong.

Eventually, Grant was able to persuade the patient not to take the advice of an AI chatbot over that of his trained psychologist. “Does the chatbot know that right now, when you’re talking to me, you’re anxious because you have a restless foot, and I see it, and I know that’s one of your tells?” he asked the patient. He asked whether the patient had ever lied to the chatbot, to which the patient sheepishly mumbled, “Sometimes.”

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