Digital Health October 30, 2023
Thelma Agnew

Innovators in AI and Data need to act now to prevent harm to patients using digital tools to support their mental health, said a speaker at Digital Health’s AI and Data event on Monday.

Umar Nizamani, CEO, International, at NiceDay, emphasised that AI will inevitably become an essential tool in mental health care: “I am very confident AI will not replace therapists – but therapists using AI will replace therapists not using AI.”

But he also stressed that technology companies working in the mental health field need to address the risks in the technology. Nizamani said there had been suicides caused by AI, citing the case of a person in Belgium who died by suicide after downloading an anxiety...

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