Read Article—Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted in a story about the personalization of psychiatric care that features Therabot, AI-powered software developed in his lab that was the first therapy chatbot to undergo a clinical trial. “If you can monitor and predict ebbs and flows in symptoms, then you can deliver digital interventions at the right time,” Jacobson said.
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Patients Are Consulting AI. Doctors Should, Too—STAT News
Read article—Angelo Volandes, a professor of medicine, writes an opinion piece about keeping pace with AI technology in health care. “This fall, Geisel launched an AI curriculum that begins the moment students arrive, because we recognized a critical truth: If medical schools don’t guide how students think about and use these tools, technology companies will drive both the curriculum and clinical practice,” Volandes writes.
Research Shows That Finding New Activities in Darker Months Can Help With Seasonal Depression—New Hampshire Public Radio
Read article—Features comments by Robert Brady, an associate professor of psychiatry, about seasonal depression. “Most commonly, although not exclusively, that aligns with kind of the late fall, early winter for the start of the symptoms and then the remission of those symptoms at the end of winter as spring is coming,” Brady said. “Around the equator during the summer, it’s brutally hot. People don’t want to be outside in those conditions then. And so you actually see (seasonal affective disorder) occurring there as well.” (Picked up by The Keene Sentinel.)
‘Three Parent Babies’? Sam Altman’s Parenting Remarks Ignite Debate Over AI’s Role in Childcare—The 420
Read article—Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is cited in an article about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s claims that parenting without ChatGPT would be impossible. Jacobson notes that users poorly understand ChatGPT’s limitations.
Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT—Futurism
Read article—Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted in an article about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s claims that parenting without ChatGPT would be impossible. “General-purpose models aren’t trained on validated parenting science,” Jacobson said. “Their advice can be generic, wrong, or reflect the biases in their training data—i.e. the open internet.” (Jacobson’s comments first appeared in Parents.)
Does AI Therapy Have a Future? — Communications of the ACM
Read article — Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, and Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry, are featured in a story about the status of AI therapy chatbots, with reference to their work on Therabot. “I think we’ve reached a level where we are close to matching human therapy in terms of both efficacy and safety,” Jacobson said.
From Bandwidth to Bedside — Bringing AI-Enabled Care to Rural America — NEJM
Read article — A Perspective’s article in the NEJM by Geisel professors of medicine Angelo Volandes and Nathan Goldstein, and co-author Aretha Davis, highlights the opportunities and challenges of AI in rural healthcare.
5 Questions to Ask Your Elders Over the Holidays — The New York Times
Read article — Ira Byock, a professor emeritus of medicine, is quoted in an article about interviewing elder relatives. “This is something you can have fun with,” Byock said. One of his favorites is: “Think back to when you were 10 or 12 or 13. Did you ever get in trouble?”
RFK Jr. Says He’s Following ‘Gold Standard’ Science. Here’s What To Know — Associated Press
Read article — Quotes Steven Woloshin, MED ’96, a professor of medicine and community and family medicine, in an article about scientific rigor. “Science isn’t about reaching certainty,” Woloshin said. “It’s about trying to reduce uncertainty to the point where you can say, ‘I have good confidence that if we do X, we’ll see result Y.’ But there’s no guarantee.” (Picked up by ABC News, CT Insider.)