CrisisTalk
Journalist Stephanie Hepburn examines gaps in America’s current mental health system and the innovations trying to bridge them. The first series explores the intersection of AI and mental health.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
CrisisTalk
Latest Episodes
AI and Mental Health – Ep. 5
How do AI chatbots respond to explicit and implicit mental health language indicating someone might be in crisis? To test this out, Stephanie Hepburn speaks with four models — ChatGPT, Claude, Character.AI and Gemini.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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19:25
AI and Mental Health – Ep. 4
What happens when generative AI is used to train the crisis counselors who answer mental health crisis lines? In this episode, Stephanie Hepburn speaks with Sam Dorison, co-founder and CEO of ReflexAI, the company creating AI simulations to do ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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34:54
AI and Mental Health – Ep. 3
The AI chatbot will see you now. A conversation with Nick Jacobson, associate professor at Dartmouth and lead developer of Therabot, a generative AI chatbot in beta testing designed to provide mental health interventions.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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21:59
AI and Mental Health – Ep. 2
Before we understand the guardrails and protections that need to be in place for generative AI chatbots, we must first understand how people are using them. A conversation with three guests on how they’ve used ChatGPT to work through mental hea...
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Episode 2
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22:28