People find AI more compassionate than mental health experts, study finds. What could this mean for future counseling?

People find AI more compassionate than mental health experts, study finds. What could this mean for future counseling?

People find responses from artificial intelligence (AI) to be more compassionate and understanding than those from human mental health experts, a new study shows. The finding again demonstrates that AI can outperform humans in fields in which we’ve long assumed only people with shared experience are good at.

In the study, published Jan. 10 in the journal Communications Psychology, scientists conducted a series of four experiments to find out how 550 participants rated empathetic responses…

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