KevinMD September 7, 2023
Weisheng Mao, MD

Like many psychiatrists, I have scoffed every time I’ve heard about artificial intelligence providing psychotherapy or other mental health care. How could patients not notice the difference between me and a bot, or how could they not care? Yet this is a direction that is being actively explored in mental health care as a way of increasing access and reducing stigma, with multiple AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants on the market. One of them states on its website that its artificial intelligence is “clinically proven to create a therapeutic alliance equivalent to a human therapist within the first week.”

Is this true? And is it desirable?

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Mental Health, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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