Thomas Chao

Cloning the Self for Mental Well-Being: A Framework for Designing Safe and Therapeutic Self-Clone Chatbots

As digital tools increasingly mediate mental health care, self-clone chatbots can offer a uniquely novel approach to intra-personal exploration and self-derived support. Trained to replicate users’ conversational patterns, self-clones allow users to talk to themselves through their digital replicas. Despite the promis…