Can a chatbot be your therapist? A growing number of states say no—Pluribus News

Read article—Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, discusses state efforts to restrict AI-powered mental health chatbots. Jacobson argued that lawmakers are targeting clinically tested tools such as Therabot while leaving general-purpose chatbots largely unregulated, saying "60 million Americans with mental illness receive no treatment." (Similar coverage in Tennessee Journal.)