Therapy for All: Leveraging Therapist CoPilot- 10X Therapist

Leveraging AI to offer virtual character-guided therapy that monitors goals, strengths, weakness and aids in reframing. With AI oversight dashboard, human therapists can intervene. AI flags sessions.

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Inspiration

Following the success of Psychiatrist Co-Pilot, viewed by 1.3 million people, and positive engagement on Twitter Spaces with 7K attendees, the community expressed a demand for more accessible therapy services.

Link to: Twitter spaces

What it does

  1. Gives people a phone number that they can text to get free therapy services.
  2. The AI over multiple days recognizes the persons goals, strengths and weaknesses. AI uses the latest research in life style changes to bring about gentle changes using therapy.
  3. We provide comprehensive AI oversight using a dashboard where risk levels of conversations are color coded and updated live.
  4. The Human therapist can take over the conversation at any time.
  5. This allows a human therapist to provide therapy to 10X the people at the same effort by partnering with AI.

How we built it

  1. Use Plivo API to receive and send text messages
  2. Use LLM to respond to messages
  3. Ask the LLM to classify the risk level of the conversation
  4. Use masonry algorithm to make a responsive dashboard.
  5. Give the conversation boxes green, yellow or red color based on the risk level classification done by the LLM.

Challenges we ran into

  1. There are many features in the roadmap but 2 days of coding was just not enough. For e.g. right now it is just text based therapy. In the next version it will be virtual character based therapy that the person can talk with instead of texting.

  2. I want to offer the services in 2 tiers. The first tier being free. To give the first tier for free I need to remove the cost of the Plivo SMS API and the OpenAI API's. Hence I need to build connector with whatsapp/telegram since access to those communication channels is free. And run an open source LLM. I just did not have enough time to build those.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Color coding of each conversation in the AI oversight dashboard so the human therapist at a glance can see the conversations that the are flashing red and may need intervention.

What we learned

  1. AI will fundamentally change the relationship humans have and the need for a therapist/confidant is already large and will only become larger.
  2. The AI augmented therapy will be the way therapy is delivered in future since it is low cost and accessible at all times.
  3. Counterintuitive but survey shows that people prefer to talk to AI over humans on many subjects where they may feel judged.

What's next for Therapy for All: Leveraging Therapist CoPilot- 10X Therapist

  1. Virtual human characters that people can talk to.
  2. Currently the person receiving the therapy has to initiate the conversation. I want to build a way for the AI to send a morning message as a conversation starter and a reminder that the AI is there if needed.
  3. More channels of communication like whatsapp and telegram. Currently only SMS works.

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