AI Makers Are Striving Mightily Toward AI-Builds-AI, Which Will Greatly Impact AI For Mental Health
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- AIAI Makers Are Striving Mightily Toward AI-Builds-AI, Which Will Greatly Impact AI For Mental Health By Lance Eliot,
- Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights.
- The nature and capabilities of the underlying AI are crucial to how well or how poorly the mental health guidance comes along.
AIAI Makers Are Striving Mightily Toward AI-Builds-AI, Which Will Greatly Impact AI For Mental Health By Lance Eliot,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant.Follow Author Jun 13, 2026, 03:15am EDTAI that builds AI is coming, and the impact on AI for mental health is a vital consideration.getty In today’s column, I examine the hot trend of AI makers such as Anthropic avidly pursuing the use of AI to further advance AI, generally known as AI-builds-AI, and I then explain how this is going to materially impact AI for mental health.
Here’s the deal. Hundreds of millions of people are currently using generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to get mental health advice, including tapping into Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT and GPT-5, xAI Grok, Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot, and so on. The nature and capabilities of the underlying AI are crucial to how well or how poorly the mental health guidance comes along. Some speculate that, by advancing AI by using AI, rather than advancing AI by human intervention, the result could be extraordinarily spectacular for those seeking mental health advice from AI -- or could be utterly disastrous.