The legislation comes amid a rise in people engaging AI chatbots for mental health advice, which also comes with risks.

The complaint, which has also been submitted to Attorneys General and Mental Health Licensing Boards of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, claims the ...

Therapy is a well-tested approach to helping people with mental health challenges, yet research shows that nearly 50% of ...

The chatbots 'are not licensed or qualified medical providers, nor could they be,' says a complaint from several digital rights and mental health groups.

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

Zynext Ventures USA LLC (Zynext), the venture capital arm of Zydus Lifesciences (Zydus), today announced its investment in ...

A research team has designed and implemented a group motivational interviewing system using multiple chatbots to support ...

The Washington Post reports on the example of a therapy bot. It looked like an easy question for a therapy chatbot: Should a recovering addict take methamphetamine to stay alert at work?

That’s a recipe for despair. See real people describing their therapy-bot interactions: “Today I realized that I’ll never feel this level of comfort and warmth in real life. I’m already ...

That's the goal of Lovely Bot, new Facebook chatbot that engages you in a kind of sex therapy session. It's the first of its kind, and it comes from the makers of Lovely, which is basically a ...

But it’s about what goes into the model. On March 27, the results of the first clinical trial for a generative AI therapy bot were published, and they showed that people in the trial who had ...