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Old 02-24-2025, 07:17 PM
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/th...affed-schools/

i'm actually torn on this, on one end it can't do any worse than most actual shrinks, but the chance it's gonna tell someone to do a flip when they bringing up wanting to jump is not 0%
Lol I always like the line from The Other Guys when the two cops are trying to talk that lawyer from jumping and Mark Wahlberg grabs the mic from Will Ferrell and says something like “look, we all know you are a loser who doesn’t have the balls to do it” or something like that. And Will Ferrell takes the mic back and says something like “no that’s actually worse than what I was saying” lol

I wouldn’t worry about the AI counselor. There is a big difference between academic counseling and actual counseling. Academic counseling has to stay on school related topics, problems with homework, problems with peers, problems with parents, stuff like that. An academic counselor can’t really help with anything not school related like suicidality (and that one requires liability insurance on the school, so I guarantee no school counselor or even a robot AI counselor is going to be giving recommendations on that, the school won’t want the liability of a kid offing themselves), substance abuse, outside of school maladaptive behaviors like criminality, sexuality (despite a lot of LGBT counselors and teachers wanting to discuss that), all sorts of non-school related problems

A human school counselor is SUPPOSED to tell a student and/or their parent “I can’t help you with this, you’re going to have to get a therapist outside of school” on any non-school related issue. Now there are a bunch who want to be a hero and try to help anyway with any issue. I’ve even seen school counselors legally adopt kids they counseled who were in the foster care system. But the school does not like it when a academic counselor steps out of their area in counseling and will not stand for it if they know
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