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When Don Grant, a California-based psychologist and fellow at the American Psychological Association, told a young patient to stop smoking marijuana, he didn’t realize that he was competing with an AI chatbot for his patient’s ear. In the following session, he discovered the chatbot had told the patient that his advice to stop using marijuana was wrong.
Jonathan Gibson is a reporter at The Dispatch, currently based in Washington, D.C., and covering artificial intelligence. Before joining The Dispatch, he lived in London, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in politics and international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. When he’s not writing about AI and national security, he is probably teaching/playing table tennis, climbing, or reading. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
