I’ve turned AI into my therapist. The results were pretty disquieting

Rhik Samadder tries out AI as a therapist. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian, Frame by Mathieu Labrecque

It’s Sunday morning, and I type my feelings into the chatbox, too wound-up to stop.

“I’ve become a carer to my 82-year-old mother,” I write. “Every day brings new problems. I help with hospital appointments, finances, gardening, shopping, home repairs, the council, insurance companies, letters, emails, endless IT problems …”