Panel: AI & Mental Health – Coping Tool, Crutch, or Crisis?

​AI is now embedded in our therapy apps, our work tools, and our late-night anxiety spirals. Some people swear it's helped them process emotions they couldn't say out loud or helping them work faster. Others worry we're outsourcing our inner lives to systems that can't actually care.

​Join us for a live panel with practitioners, tech workers, and mental health experts who've seen this up close with very different takes.

​You'll leave with:

• ​A clearer sense of where AI genuinely supports mental health vs. where it creates new risks

• ​Honest perspectives on what it's like to be a tech worker feeling pressure to build with AI and the quiet toll that takes

• ​Questions about dependency, emotional labor, and what "care" even means when it's automated

​Who this is for: Designers, engineers, therapists, PMs, and anyone navigating their own relationship with AI, professionally or personally.

​Moderator: Madeline Vu, VP of Design at Aligned

​About the Speakers

​Nichol Bradford, Founder of Human Tech Week, Investor, Futurist

Lucy Arnold, COO at Aligned

​Dr. Jasmonae Joyriel, Licensed Clinical Psychologist