AI Coffee Chat: AI in Psychology - Lessons from GMU's Generative AI Simulator "GlorIA"-Recording

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The webinar opened with Tom from CASE Europe welcoming attendees to an AI Coffee Chat and demonstrating live translation tools for non-English speakers. He then ran a poll to gauge participants’ AI experience, institutional readiness, and main barriers. Results showed most attendees use AI for data analysis and research, many institutions are cautiously adopting it, and the biggest concern is data privacy, security, and ethics.<br /><br />Fernanda Rego, director of the School of Psychology at Universidad Gabriela Mistral, then presented Gloria, an AI-powered clinical simulation platform for psychology training. Inspired by the historic “Gloria” psychotherapy recordings from the 1960s, the platform shifts students from passive observation to active, repeated practice with virtual patients. AI is used as a mediator, not a replacement for faculty or human clinical work. The system uses contextual generation, retrieval-based knowledge, and a dynamic patient state engine to reduce hallucinations and simulate realistic clinical responses.<br /><br />Fernanda explained that Gloria includes body language cues, cultural context, progress tracking, and AI-assisted feedback reviewed by human supervisors. Early studies showed significant improvements in student competencies, and the platform has grown to nine universities across six countries, with strong satisfaction and realism ratings. The session closed with a discussion on ethics, scaling, funding, cultural adaptation, and how AI can support human skill development rather than replace thinking.

Keywords

AI Coffee Chat

live translation tools

clinical simulation platform

psychology training

data privacy

AI ethics

virtual patients

human supervision

cultural adaptation