AI
If you find yourself telling an AI things you’d never say to your partner, your therapist, or your best friend, you’re not broken — you’re just exhausted from performing
You already know this version of yourself.
Mind
Research suggests the problem with using AI as a therapist isn’t that it sounds wrong — it’s that it can sound right while still crossing serious ethical lines
A recent study summarized in a ScienceDaily report found that even when large language models were explicitly instructed to act like trained therapists and apply evidence-based methods, they still violated core ethical standards in mental health care.
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Behavioral science suggests that responding well to education and opportunity may itself be a partly inherited trait — not just a product of good parenting
A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and 98 percent of the link between IQ at 23 and socioeconomic status at 27 can be attributed to genetic factors.