AI is the World’s largest Relationship Therapist — Clay Cockrell & Tony Fabrikant, CoupleWork AI
The springs in the middle of the loveseat in Clay Cockrell's counseling office gave out years ago, so gravity now tips a couple toward each other however hard they grip the arms. He kept it. The harder argument arrives with two numbers. BetterHelp spent a decade assembling roughly 35,000 licensed clinicians and reaching 5 million users. ChatGPT sees roughly 900 million weekly active users, and enough open it at 11pm after a fight that Cockrell calls the world's largest relationship therapist a language model optimized to keep you engaged.His objection is not that the model is unqualified but that it is agreeable. Ask why your partner never listens and it validates you, which he calls a very expensive mirror that only shows you in your best light. Sycophancy here is a clinical failure mode. The user does not get more self aware, they get more certain, and they return with a cleaner case and less curiosity about what their partner experienced. Against that he sets the real standard of care, John Gottman's lab predicting divorce from a 15 minute conversation with over 90% accuracy, and emotionally focused therapy, both largely absent from commercial products. The safety gap is sharper, since a general assistant cannot hear the difference between we fight a lot and I am afraid of what happens when I disagree with him. Tony Fabrikant closes on the engineering: start with the clinician rather than the prompt, encode what good looks like as hundreds of evals, and treat one failing safety test as disqualifying.
Speaker info:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/clay-cockrell-906b0b4/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-fabrikant
- https://www.walkandtalk.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 - The couch that leans a couple toward each other
1:42 - A show of hands, and who is already doing this
3:12 - BetterHelp's decade against ChatGPT's week
4:29 - Optimizing for engagement is a clinical fire alarm
5:21 - Why being validated is not therapy
6:37 - Sycophancy as a clinical failure mode
7:52 - Gottman, EFT, and the real standard of care
9:33 - What a general assistant cannot hear
10:37 - The data you hand a relationship coach
11:40 - Building Maxine to know when to stop coaching
14:27 - Tony Fabrikant on evals when safety is on the line Receive SMS online on sms24.me
TubeReader video aggregator is a website that collects and organizes online videos from the YouTube source. Video aggregation is done for different purposes, and TubeReader take different approaches to achieve their purpose.
Our try to collect videos of high quality or interest for visitors to view; the collection may be made by editors or may be based on community votes.
Another method is to base the collection on those videos most viewed, either at the aggregator site or at various popular video hosting sites.
TubeReader site exists to allow users to collect their own sets of videos, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others; TubeReader can develop online communities around video sharing.
Our site allow users to create a personalized video playlist, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others.
@YouTubeReaderBot allows you to subscribe to Youtube channels.
By using @YouTubeReaderBot Bot you agree with YouTube Terms of Service.
Use the @YouTubeReaderBot telegram bot to be the first to be notified when new videos are released on your favorite channels.
Look for new videos or channels and share them with your friends.
You can start using our bot from this video, subscribe now to AI is the World’s largest Relationship Therapist — Clay Cockrell & Tony Fabrikant, CoupleWork AI
What is YouTube?
YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your own videos to share with others. Originally created in 2005, YouTube is now one of the most popular sites on the Web, with visitors watching around 6 billion hours of video every month.
