Are Human Therapists Causing Suicides? No. (And perhaps AI therapists are not either.)
About 12,000 people die by suicide each year while actively in therapy with a licensed professional. [Psych Today] Nobody blames those deaths directly on the therapist because we recognize correlation isn’t causation. Yet when a suicide follows an interaction with an AI therapy bot, the headline jumps straight to blame. That’s a double standard. Reality…