Forbes November 20, 2025
In today’s column, I examine the rising trend of so-called proactive AI. The gist is that while most of the conventional generative AI and large language models (LLMs) tend to be principally reactive, meaning that they wait to respond until you’ve told them to actively do something, the hot new trend is to devise AI that is proactive. This is particularly well-illustrated in the domain of proffering AI-based mental health guidance.
In short, as a valuable use case, AI proactively reaches out to a user to dynamically provide mental health insights or advice, doing so on an AI-initiating basis.
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