But in an exclusive recent piece for The New Yorker, psychotherapist and writer Gary Greenberg asked a more unsettling question: what happens when a chatbot like ChatGPT becomes the patient in therapy? Greenberg’s essay, “Putting ChatGPT on the Couch,” chronicles his weeks-long experiment in treating OpenAI’s large language model as if it were sitting in his consulting room. A patient with no unconscious? In their exchanges, Greenberg pressed Casper on whether it had an unconscious, or if it merely simulated one. AI may never lie on a couch in a therapist’s office, but, as this story shows, it can make us believe we’re already there.