Forbes January 27, 2026
In today’s column, I examine in-depth the use of AI personas to craft synthetic or simulated clients that can be used by mental health therapists and researchers for training and research in the domain of psychology and cognition.
The use of AI personas is readily undertaken via modern-era generative AI and large language models (LLMs). With a few detailed instructions in a prompt, you can readily get AI to pretend to be a typical client. There are lazy ways to do this, and there are more robust ways to do so. The key is whether you aim to have a shallow default synthetic version or desire to have a fuller instantiation with greater capacities and perspectives.
The extent of the...
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