Muse Alpha: Primary Study of AI chatbot for Psychotherapy with Socratic Methods

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has revolutionized how we interact with information and entertainment with ChatG PT, a language model developed by OpenAI, one of its prominent applications. Recently, chatGPT has used Socratic questioning for medical treatment purposes by avoiding the reinforcement of negative stereotypes from the users (potential patients). However, we introduced an AI chatbot called Muse Alpha, in which Socratic questioning is also applied, to evaluate a client's automatic thinking in cognitive therapy (CT), inducing the client to evaluate whether their automatic thinking is realistically valid and to have more realistic thoughts. In this paper, we have shown three examples of how Socratic dialogue is applied differently between chatGPT and Muse Alpha, and it shows that Muse Alpha seems to achieve the actual moment of cognitive change by uncovering the assumptions and evidence that underpin their thoughts in respect of problems, while socratic dialogues in chatGPT involve asking open-ended questions, just leading to reflection and a new question. We therefore concluded that Muse alpha examines assumptions and explores different perspectives to arrive at a deeper understanding of the topic through critical thinking and discussion.