ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the ethical issues concerning the use of Chat_Bots. It reviews what Chat_Bots are and the contexts in which they are used, with some examples. The chapter critically evaluates the promises of the proponents of Chat_Bots technology and address the ethical concerns lying therein. Instead of detecting and then treating mental disorders in the clinic, artificial intelligence technologies promise to detect and intervene in mental states before anomalies become full-blown mental disorders. In other words, the goal is to preempt mental illness and intervene before the illness fully develops. Digital phenotyping is made possible through digital sensing, i.e., the activity of digital devices in collecting and storing da.
