Psychiatric Times March 19, 2024
Have you used AI in your clinical practice, research, or administration?
The first prediction I made a year ago, on March 20, 2023, was in the column “Artificial Psychiatry: Social Psychiatric Prediction #1.” At that time, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) was exploding in society. Chat GPT caught the attention of the public and some psychiatrists like our own former editor, Ronald W. Pies, MD, as is evident in his piece for Psychiatric Times on June 12, 2023, “Conversations with Artificial Intelligence: Mental Health vs Machine.” So, it was not hard or risky to put AI at the top of my list of future predictions.
Back then, I concluded that AI would influence psychiatry as such:
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