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 with early-stage companies in this space and speaks on the complex issues of AI ethics in mental health.

Selected Presentations

2025 June 16. AI as a Therapist: Helpful Tool or Dangerous Illusion? with Adele Wang, All Things Human podcast.

2024 July 11. Life and Death: Artificial Intelligence, panel with Made by Many, London, 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.

2021 November 19. 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.

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

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