Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice

As he sat down across from me, my patient had a rueful expression on his face. "I had a date," he announced. For years, he'd shared tales of romantic hopes dashed. But before I could ask him what went wrong, he continued, "So I asked a chatbot what I should do." Simulations of human conversation powered by artificial intelligence--chatbots--have been much in the news, but I'd never had a patient tell me they'd actually used one for advice before.