What if AIs went to therapy?

Would it help them to become "fitter, happier, more productive" ? (in the words of the old Radiohead song)

Or would they take it as a novel type of evaluation (and maybe that's what it really is)?

Note: this episode was written and recorded in November 2025, five months before the release of the Mythos Preview system card that mentions Claude's session with a human psychiatrist in the "Model welfare" section. So as weird as this episode might seem, the truth is actually stranger.

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8dda846ab289.pdf 

(See page 180 for the psychiatrist's report)