Al is becoming the World's largest Relationship Therapist. We Can't Afford to Get it Wrong.
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 1:30pm-1:50pm
- Track/room: AI in Healthcare · Track 7
- Speaker(s): Clay Cockrell, Tony Fabrikant
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Millions of people are now turning to AI for relationship advice and emotional support, often before
they'd ever consider a human therapist. Most of the AI Therapy that is available is without clinical
oversight, ethical frameworks, or any serious reckoning with what it means to intervene in the most
intimate and vulnerable space in a person's life. People are getting hurt. As a couples therapist
with 30 years experience, I teamed up with the former CTO at S&P and we created CoupleWork, an AI
relationship therapist I essentially trained on three decades of clinical knowledge and every
evidence-based modality that exists. Our voice interactive AI, Maxine, is proving this can be done
responsibly and very effectively. And what we're learning about the nature of love, connection, and
human vulnerability at scale is something this industry needs to hear. I also want to talk about
what comes next: the regulatory frameworks that don't yet exist, the liability questions nobody is
answering, and why the therapists who should be leading this conversation are almost entirely absent
from it.
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