Marlynn Wei, MD, JD is at the forefront of the AI and mental health and the emerging ethical and therapeutic issues.
Dr. Wei has been interviewed widely about human-AI relationships, empathic AI, AI therapy, and digital immortality. Dr. Wei consults and speaks on the complex issues of AI ethics in mental health.
2025 October 7. The Future of AI. PBS News Hour.
2025 August 21. The rise of AI chatbots in mental health. CBS Mornings Plus.
2025 September 19. AI chatbots raise new concerns for teen mental health. CBS Mornings Plus.
2025 June 16. AI as a Therapist: Helpful Tool or Dangerous Illusion? with Adele Wang, All Things Human podcast.
2021 November 19. Panelist/designer presentation on Elixir: Digital Immortality. University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence. Design for Digital (Im)mortality panel at Digital (Im)mortality: Philosophy, Ethics and Design. Cambridge, UK.
2022 May 15. Can Empathy Exist in the Metaverse? Video podcast with host Casey Clegg (Pubnub COO), with panelists Wanda Gregory, Philip Rosedale. San Francisco, CA.
AI & Digital Immortality Collaborations
2021 Summer. Pipeline Theatre Preview of Beta UX: interactive interview, ELIXIR: Digital Immortality. New York, NY.
2021 January and March. Pipeline Theatre, Internal Workshops of ELIXIR AI and digital immortality. New York, NY.
2020 March. ELIXIR AI. Media Art Exploration presentation on AI clones and digital immortality. New York, NY
Mental Health in the Age of AI
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2024 July 11. Elixir: Digital Immortality presentation on AI digital immortality project (2019-2024). Life and Death: Artificial Intelligence, panel with Made by Many, London, UK.
