[PHILOS-L] Lemon Tree Webinar - Conversational AI in Mental Healthcare - final call for registration & program
Roy Dings
Lemon Tree Center for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Philosophy Webinar Series
Responsible Uses of Conversational Artificial Intelligence in Mental Healthcare
This webinar brings together philosophers, psychologists, and psychiatrists to discuss risks and opportunities of conversational artificial intelligence (CAI) systems designed to simulate human therapeutic dialogue to deliver evidence-based psychological interventions. CAI is increasingly utilized to scale clinical accessibility, challenge cognitive distortions, and provide real-time emotional coping mechanisms to clinical populations. Recent randomised clinical trials have shown that CAI tools can yield significant reductions in anxiety and depression, matching or exceeding typical therapy baselines.
We will consider:
- The potential applications of conversational AI in mental healthcare
- Emerging evidence on effectiveness and clinical use
- Ethical challenges, including trust, dependency, and risk of harm
- What responsible and safe integration into care might look like
To register for the event, please use the following link:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/5cQndsNuTwScnXLNgEO8RA
Program
(All mentioned times are CEST)
Wednesday 27 May
14.00-14.15: Introduction – Julian Kiverstein (Lemon Tree Center)
14.15-15.15: Serife Tekin (Centre for Bioethics & Humanities, Norton College of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA) - Artificial intelligence and the future of mental health
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.30: Arthur Bran Herbener (Department of Psychology and Behavioural Science, Aarhus University, Denmark) - On the active ingredients associated with artificial therapists.
16.30-16.45 Break
16.45-1745: Dina Babushkina (Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, The Netherlands) - Narrative self-repair and the epistemic other.
Thursday 28 May
14.00-15.00: J.P. Grodniewicz (Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland) - Does it matter whether one’s therapist is an AI?
Break: 15-15.15
15.15-16.15: Joel Krueger (Department of Sociology & Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK) - “They’re the only support system that reliably shows up”: autism, AI, and cultivating authenticity.
Break: 16.15-16.30
16.30-17.30: Lucy Osler (Department of Sociology & Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK) - Conversations with AI: The Risk of Existential Drift
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