A psychotherapy bot is headed to refugee camps in the Middle East

Sally

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This is a great idea that is so needed in the refugee camps where men, women and children have to have a lot of psychological problems as a result of what they have gone through.


A psychotherapy bot is headed to refugee camps in the Middle East



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X2AIX2AI founders Eugene Bann (left) and Michiel Rauws (right) intrigue school children with Karim's automatic responses at Jusoor school, located within a Syrian refugee community in Al Marj, Lebanon.



The war in Syria is horrifying.

According to the UN, over 3 million Syrian refugees are now in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, with millions more displaced within Syria.

To help with this crisis, artificial intelligence startup X2AI is in the middle of a two week stay in Beirut, Lebanon, where it's piloting the use of artificial intelligence as a psychotherapy treatment for refugees.

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