Over the past 100 years, our mental model of a typical psychotherapy session has not changed much: You probably imagine a distraught but comfortable client lying supine on a couch while a curious therapist takes notes and ponders about how to respond. It is our prediction that with the meteoric rise of Large-Language-Model (LLM)-based artificial intelligence, this image will soon only be an amusing meme of a less precise and effective history when helping other human beings was more of an artform than a science.

To say that psychotherapy lacks any scientific rigor is certainly false. Since its inception, clinical scientists have published thousands of studies that examine the efficacy of various psychotherapies and their respective techniques that are purported to produce meaningful reduc

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