“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

It's not the machines themselves that are inherently tyrannical, it's the human will to dominate now supercharge by technology.

LLM hallucinations aside, unregulated artificial intelligence for mental health therapy is a very slippery slope. We cannot allow, say, advertisers and brands to have access to the mind of our most vulnerables so directly.

In particular, Illinois has a legal requirement that health insurance must cover mental health services at an equivalent level as physical health services, including care with no end date for chronic conditions. So whether or not a chatbot counts as mental health therapy is likely quite relevant on whether or not Illinoisans can bill insurance for it.