Having support that's always just a few taps away is part of the reason people have started using general AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini for mental health, even if they're not designed for that. And it's pretty common. A survey published in June by the American Psychological Association found that three-quarters of the 1,200 therapists they asked said their patients told them they'd used AI for things like emotional support. And a third said patients are using them to assist their treatment. It initially started with ChatGPT, mental health, and also just questions about health generally. Jennifer Millier is a 45-year-old attorney living in Los Angeles.

Zainab was talking about some of these figures and the way that people use it for financial advice and that point around stigma, it made me also think of the statistics around things like mental health and the way that people use chat GPT as kind of like an informal therapist. And I think it's all interlinked around that. You know, people feeling like they want the privacy to be able to ask those questions. And the mental health UK data is that usage peaks for 25 year olds with many of them, as I think as many as between one and three to 60% saying that they're using it for mental health support. And so I think there's some really interesting societal questions around how do we get comfortable talking about money?