There are critical gaps in the accessibility and affordability of mental health services worldwide: In some countries, you have to wait for years for therapy, in others you get at max one session per month covered by the health insurance, in others therapies for particular conditions like cluster B personality disorders are virtually nonexistent.

We want to leverage LLMs to fill these gaps and complement regular therapy. Our product is in development. We’ve based it on Gemini and want it to interface with widely used messaging apps, so users can interact with it like they would with a friend or coach.

I’ve previously founded or worked for several charities and spent a few years in earning to give for work on invertebrate welfare and s-risks from AI.

You can get up to speed on my thinking at Impartial Priorities.