{"id":16387,"date":"2025-07-12T18:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/?p=16387"},"modified":"2025-07-12T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:18:26","slug":"experts-in-the-uae-warn-that-ai-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/2025\/07\/12\/experts-in-the-uae-warn-that-ai-might\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts in the UAE Warn That AI Might Mimic a &#8220;Real&#8221; Therapist and Postpone Mental Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For work-related assistance, ChatGPT proved to be a useful tool for 27-year-old Sara (name changed upon request). She utilised it to receive advice on the move, clarify concepts, and verify facts. But it quickly started to change to something more.<\/p>\n<p>I started using it while I was going through emotionally taxing times at work, in my family, and even in relationships,&#8221; she added. I adore how it reads my mind and evaluates everything. It offers me a different viewpoint, and I love the sense of security it provides. It gives me the impression that my emotions are real.<\/p>\n<p>Sara gradually began utilising ChatGPT to examine her personality and routines. She remarked, &#8220;It became like a coach, helping me understand myself better.&#8221; Even if it&#8217;s only to become more self-aware, I&#8217;d really like to attend therapy someday. However, therapy might occasionally be costly and out of reach. Having something covert, confidential, and accessible around the clock is quite reassuring. Particularly when I sense the onset of a panic attack.<\/p>\n<p>The growing tendency of children using ChatGPT for mental support is &#8220;not surprising,&#8221; according to experts, but it is very &#8220;concerning&#8221; for several reasons. &#8220;The fact that more youth are using ChatGPT and other AI platforms for emotional support is not surprising,&#8221; Dr. Alexandre Machado, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Hakkini mental health clinic in Dubai, stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/top-10-leaders-leading-the-future-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet The Mavericks: Top 10 Leaders Leading the Future in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/top-10-global-women-in-business-for-2025-womens-day-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 10 Global Women in Business for 2025 \u2013 Women\u2019s Day Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For work-related assistance, ChatGPT proved to be a useful tool for 27-year-old Sara (name changed upon request). She utilised it to receive advice on the move, clarify concepts, and verify facts. But it quickly started to change to something more. I started using it while I was going through emotionally taxing times at work, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrepreneurmirror.com\/staging-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}