Generative AI has the potential to expand access to mental health support and treatment. From apps to bots to “therapy” modes within larger systems, anyone with a smartphone in their palm now has access to countless tools that implicitly and/ or explicitly promise to improve mental health. Alongside this rapid technological expansion and innovation, however, accounts of serious negative outcomes associated with these AI innovations, including user suicide, are emerging. In addition, our nation’s youth may be particularly susceptible to the risks – known and unknown – of these AI-powered tools and systems.
In this seminar, three experts join Center Director Rebecca Brendel MD, JD in elucidating:
- what we know (and don’t know) about the benefits and harms of AI-powered interventions for mental health,
- core ethical concerns and guiding principles for the future, and
- possible paths forward to enable innovation and access while also advancing benefit and safety.
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