Recent literature shows that AI chatbots can successfully offer cognitive behavior therapy (see metastudies by e.g. Lattie et al., 2019; Harrer et al., 2019). (How) can they also help us to offer students low-threshold assistance during the lockdowns? In a just published paper, my colleagues and I argue that this can be done and describe how:
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Currently we are organizing a large scale field experiment to study the effects of this intervention. I am very interested to learn more about how others think about this and whether others are also currently organizing similar experiments!