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The Paradox of Agency in Psychotherapy: How People with Mental Distress Experience Generative AI and Human Therapists
2025-08-27
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<p>Background: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models has sparked heated debate over whether Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots can serve as “digital therapists” capable of providing therapeutic support. While much of this discussion focuses on AI’s lack of agency, understood as the absence of mental states, consciousness, autonomy, and intentionality, empirical research on users’ real-world...
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- 10.31234/osf.io/4fv56_v1