[HIGHLIGHTS] Would you go to a robot to get psychological care?

Mental health tools based on artificial intelligence are gaining more and more followers. Would you turn to an AI-based virtual therapist to provide you with some type of psychological help? “Surely, depending on what problems,” confesses Rubén Nieto, professor of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Open University of Catalonia.

One of the first conversational bots in history, Eliza, was created in 1966 by Professor Joseph Weizenbaum, based on Carl Rogers' psychotherapy method.