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Psychologists Using AI to Transcribe and Summarize Sessions
A BBC Brasil report spoke with psychologists who already use AI in their practice.
- Profession
- Psychologist
- Tools
- IA generativa
- Source
- bbc.com ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- December 8, 2025
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Professionals report using it for transcription, summaries and reports.
How it went
The BBC contacted 50 psychologists; of those who replied, 10 confirmed they use AI.
Good to know
The CFP (Brazil's Federal Psychology Council) calls for critical supervision. Recording and transcribing a session requires the patient's explicit consent (sensitive data under the LGPD).
The prompt
From this anonymized transcript [text], write a session summary with the main themes, relevant statements and points for the next session. Do not make a diagnosis.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Found a mistake?
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