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One week of Claude
Last week, I migrated over from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Anthropic’s Claude. In case you missed it, I shared two resources with step-by-step how-to guides on how you can do it too, for Claude and Gemini.
The hardest part? Changing habits related to context memory. Claude doesn’t know everything about me because I chose to import only some of my data from ChatGPT. So, I’m learning to retrain this tool and see what it comes up with.
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Hot Take & AI Headline This Week
Shoutout to the Therapist Brief newsletter for bringing this to my attention!
AI is impacting mental health.
This week’s headline:
What’s happening?
A recent publication introduced the term Artificial Intelligence Replacement Dysfunction (AIRD) to describe the psychological distress professionals may experience as AI systems begin encroaching on traditionally human-dominated roles, particularly in mental health.
The article frames this as an emerging phenomenon: clinicians grappling with anxiety, identity threat, and professional insecurity as AI tools grow more sophisticated.
This isn’t about one specific tool.
It’s about workforce-level emotional response to technological acceleration.
Why this matters:
We are moving beyond “AI is interesting” and into “AI is impacting professional identity.”
That shift changes the conversation.
When fear of displacement enters the picture, resistance increases.
When resistance increases, literacy decreases.
When literacy decreases, the risk of poor implementation rises.
Emotional responses to AI are no longer fringe.
They are becoming systemic.
High-level takeaways:
AI anxiety is real, and it’s not just about job loss. It’s about identity.
Professions grounded in relational work may feel this more acutely.
Avoidance amplifies fear. Structured education reduces it.
Workforce distress is a leadership issue, not just an individual coping issue.
What to pay attention to:
Watch how institutions are responding.
Do they:
invest in literacy and guardrails?
offer training before implementation?
create ethical frameworks?
or introduce tools without psychological safety?
The emotional rollout matters as much as the technical rollout.
My husband calls this culture.
Why this matters to OT:
Occupational therapy is a relational, client-centered profession.
If we do not proactively build AI literacy within OT education and practice, we risk defaulting to fear-based narratives instead of evidence-based integration.
AI will not replace occupational therapy practitioners.
But OTPs who understand AI will shape how it’s used in practice.
The real question isn’t “Will AI replace us?”
It’s “Will we help define its role in our profession?”
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