Health News Ai Could Revolutionize The Future Of Mental Health Care, But It Comes With Big Risks

Generative AI could be transformative in mental health care

New work by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholar harnesses the power of generative artificial intelligence, using it in tandem with measurement-based care and access-to-care models in a ... Read More

AI for Mental Health Support: How Kai Blends Human Empathy with Technology to Close the Care Gap

Clinical psychologist and entrepreneur Alex Frenkel shares how Kai utilises AI to expand safe and accessible mental health support. Read More

With therapy hard to get, people lean on AI for mental health. What are the risks?

Kristen Johansson's therapy ended with a single phone call. For five years, she'd trusted the same counselor — through her mother's death, a divorce and years of childhood trauma work. But when her ... Read More

OpenAI's staggering mental health crisis revealed — Millions use ChatGPT like a therapist, but that's about to change

OpenAI has provided some internal numbers related to users who seek help from GPT-5, and they're a lot bigger than I was expecting. The AI firm has laid out details as to how it's combating the issue. Read More

SonderMind rolls out more AI tools to drive outcomes in mental health

SonderMind, a hybrid mental health provider, has unveiled a suite of AI tools to save providers time, support the provider-patient relationship and engage patients between sessions. Among the tools ... Read More

Lyra launches ‘clinical-grade’ chatbot amid growing concern about mental health and AI

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ... Read More

April Koh Is Using AI to Make Finding Mental Health Support Easier

This story is part of the 2025 TIME100 Next. Read Aileen Lee’s tribute to April Koh here. April Koh vividly remembers the first time she tried to talk to her mother about her mental health, when she ... Read More

Healthcare marketers need to step into the growing world of AI and mental health

Every agency and industry player in the space is working on some new AI product. Whether it’s a “mini” AI creative agency or a new tool for market research, AI applications are popping out left, right ... Read More

Using ChatGPT for Therapy: Mental Health Risks and Safer Alternatives Explained

While AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, can allow you to engage in real-time and immediate conversations, they shouldn’t be used as a substitute for mental health therapy, as it can lead to misleading or ... Read More

Don’t Let AI Redefine Mental Health Care Without You

Therapy is already changing. The change will only accelerate, faster than many of us can adjust. This is partly because of artificial intelligence (AI), but also because the mental health system ... Read More

‘Stethoscopes in the sand’: Why I’m rethinking AI’s role in medicine

A health care worker at Mount Sinai Hospital points to patient risk assessments produced by an AI program. (Hilary Swift/For The Washington Post) Health care remains one of the most stubborn failures ... Read More