What AI Means for the Future of ABA with Beth Garrison
Behavior Bitches
Study Notes ABA, LLC
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
AI is here…but is it taking your BCBA job, or just saving you from writing session notes? Beth Garrison, Ph.D., BCBA, and AI wizard, breaks down the hype, the way it works, and what humans will always do better than robots. We talk weird searches, the ethical red flags every behavior analyst should know before plugging client info into ChatGPT, and the ultimate ABA AI assistant.
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| 0:00.0 | It's behavior bitches. |
| 0:05.1 | Hey guys, welcome to today's episode of Behavior Bitches podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm excited about our guest today, as I'm always excited because we only have cool people |
| 0:14.5 | on the podcast, duh, because I choose who we have on. |
| 0:18.0 | And our guest today, and I'm actually so embarrassed because it took us forever to get everything set up for the podcast. We were having lots of technical difficulties. And our guest today is a little intimidating when it comes to anything tech or AI related. So let me tell you about our guest and why it's embarrassing that we couldn't figure out how to get our shit together, even though Julia, you did a great job. |
| 0:38.3 | I know she was very stressed. |
| 0:40.1 | All right. |
| 0:40.2 | So our guest today is Beth Garrison. |
| 0:42.8 | She holds a PhD in artificial intelligence, for those of you guys who didn't know, |
| 0:47.0 | that's AI, where her research has specialized in working with neurodivergent individuals, |
| 0:52.9 | co-designing AI prototypes, and |
| 0:55.1 | agentic systems. Is that you say it? Agentic? Yeah. This is way too smart for me already. |
| 1:01.2 | To support them in reaching their vocational and social goals, Beth specializes in data science, |
| 1:07.1 | human computer interaction, U.X research, and has experiencing, developing natural |
| 1:12.9 | language processing, computer vision, and generative AI models. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, the cool thing about Beth is Beth is a BCBA. She became a BCBA in 2010. |
| 1:25.0 | You are like a vintage BCBA too. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, did you take the test on paper or on third edition? It was on computers, but third edition or third task list. Oh my God, third edition. And now we're |
| 1:38.5 | on the sixth edition. And it's not even a task list anymore. It's a test content outline. |
| 1:42.1 | Yeah. Amazing. Okay. So your background, what I see here, |
| 1:47.5 | and I'm going to let you talk about it a little bit, is you've worked in, it looks like in clinics, |
| 1:53.3 | school districts, and insurance funders. Is this correct? Correct. Yeah. Yep. So you've gotten around the ABA space. I like it. You've |
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