Medical Xpress December 19, 2025
A new analysis examines a potential turning point for artificial intelligence in mental health care. The article, “Feasible but Fragile”: An Inflection Point for Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Care, reflects on the November 18, 2025 United States House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on AI chatbots and features an interview with John Torous, MBI, MD, Director of Digital Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Torous, who provided expert testimony at the hearing, describes it as a rare early instance of congressional oversight in digital mental health and sees it as signaling the end of “AI exceptionalism“—treating AI tools as unique and therefore outside the standards applied to other...
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