Moral Deskilling: How Automation Is Quietly Weakening Ethical Judgment in Mental Health
Ethics rarely collapse in a dramatic moment. They erode. Quietly. Increment by increment. Often with good intentions.
In mental health care, ethical drift does not usually announce itself as misconduct or malpractice. It shows up as convenience. As relief. As the gentle outsourcing of decisions that once required pause, discomfort, and human deliberation. The rise of automation and AI has not created this drift, but it has accelerated it. What we are witnessing now is not simply a technological shift, but a cognitive one. A gradual weakening of ethical muscle memory. A phenomenon increasingly described as moral deskilling.
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