Search “mental health chatbot” or “AI therapy” in the app store, and you’ll find numerous apps leveraging artificial ...

If Gov. JB Pritzker signs this bill into law, Illinois will become the first state in the country to explicitly regulate AI ...

In March 2025, Dartmouth researchers published the first-ever clinical, randomized controlled trial of a generative AI-powered therapy chatbot, named Therabot, and found that it resulted in ...

Some people are turning to chatbots as an easy and cheap way to get support. But The i Paper has found they could give ...

Wysa is an AI chatbot designed to provide around-the-clock mental health support—and it’s not the only one of its kind. Search “mental health chatbot” or “AI therapy” in the app store, ...

When it comes to psychotherapy, AI may not be ready for primetime, but it's an inevitability that shouldn't be held to a ...

Anyway, if you want to have a conversation with your favorite AI chatbot, I feel compelled to warn you: It's not a person. It ...

This article explores four essential areas of concern with AI therapy: efficacy, privacy, attachment, and bias.

OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

From asking ChatGPT for advice to using AI-backed therapy apps, mental health help has gone digital. But how do bots turn ...