Woebot Health this week shut down its core product, a pioneering therapy chatbot. Its demise was hastened by the new wave of conversational artificial intelligence that Woebot foreshadowed. The ...

Woebot Health this week shut down its core product, a pioneering therapy chatbot. Its demise was hastened by the new wave of conversational artificial intelligence that Woebot foreshadowed.

He created two teenage personas based on his 30 years of experience as a child psychiatrist who also works in criminal justice, and chatted with 10 AI companions and therapy chatbots.

AI is changing the field of mental health care—but can AI chatbots truly provide effective mental health support, and could they replace human therapists?

AI is changing the field of mental health care—but can AI chatbots truly provide effective mental health support, and could they replace human therapists?

Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help? A number of companies are building A.I. apps for patients to talk to when human therapists aren’t available. Illustration by Hoi Chan Share full ...

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

Wysa explains why chatbot support is gaining ground as Gen Z turns to AI for mental health support and what users need to know.

In their second experiment, the research team tested how a therapy chatbot would respond to mental health symptoms such as suicidal ideation or delusions in a conversational setting.

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.