The Silicon Shrink by Daniel Oberhaus - ISBN: 9780262049351
Hardcover
AI psychiatry’s promise hides a dangerous reality: a tech-driven asylum.

The Silicon Shrink

How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum

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  • Hardcover

    264 pages

  • Release Date

    4 March 2025

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Summary

Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.

AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can’t afford or can’t access treatment, and even invent new psychiatric drugs. But the hype obscures an unnerving reality. In The Silicon Shrink, Daniel Oberhaus tells the inside story of how the quest to use AI in psychiatry has created the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262049351
ISBN-10:026204935X
Author:Daniel Oberhaus
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:264
Release Date:4 March 2025
Weight:567g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

“An eye-opening exposé of how machines are replacing people in a sphere they probably shouldn’t be.”
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About The Author

Daniel Oberhaus

Daniel Oberhaus is a science writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder of the deep tech communications agency HAUS and was previously a staff writer at WIRED. His first book, Extraterrestrial Languages (MIT Press), is about the art, science, and philosophy of interstellar communication.

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