Could AI Replace Your Therapist? New Research Suggests the Technology Could Play a Role in Mental Health Care – Philly Voice

Read article - Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, and Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry, are featured in an article about Therabot. "Therabot is not limited to an office and can go anywhere a patient goes," Heinz said. "It was available around the clock for challenges that arose in daily life and could walk users through strategies to handle them in real time. But the feature that allows AI to be so effective is also what confers its risk — patients can say anything to it, and it can say anything back."