What happens when someone who studies how people think about their own thinking turns that same lens onto the AI systems we are increasingly trusting with our mental health?
Dr Emma Palmer Cooper is a research psychologist at the intersection of metacognition, digital well being, and the ethics of AI in mental health support. Her work asks hard questions about trust, data privacy, and what she calls the paranoia paradox, the uncomfortable position people find themselves in when the only accessible support is one they don’t fully trust.
In this episode, we talk about why generic chatbots are actively designed to do the opposite of therapy, what AI psychosis reveals about accountability gaps, the neurodivergence diagnosis backlog, and why everyone thinks her research is about mental health when it is really about people. Keep learning, keep questioning.
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