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.

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.

Read Article — Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted in an article about the Nov. 6 FDA advisory committee meeting on regulating AI chatbots for psychotherapy. “A product-centric approval process that could be too slow and can be rigid for the field could guarantee that a product that is approved would be obsolete by the time it’s really deployed,” said Jacobson, who told the committee about his work on Therabot, the first generative AI chatbot to undergo a clinical trial.

Read article – Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry and research psychiatrist, and Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, are featured in a story about the use of chatbots for psychotherapy, with mention of the Therabot platform developed at Dartmouth. “Ultimately these models are generative, and you can’t guarantee in any particular situation how it’s going to respond,” Heinz said. “I think that’s why we need human oversight.”

Read article – Thomas Thesen, an associate professor of medical education, is featured in an article about training faculty and administrators in medical schools on how to use AI, with a mention of the AI teaching academy for faculty that Thesen co-directs. “We have to teach people principles and critical thinking about AI,” Thesen said.

Read article – An article about the launch of Evergreen, an AI-driven platform designed by students and faculty to help students maintain well-being and manage stress. The article quotes Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry; Ayush Saran D ’27; and Teddy Roberts D ’26. “They’re being really careful that everything the chatbot is going to say is something they can say is evidence-backed, and we’re specifically cutting things if we can’t 100% say that the evidence supports this claim,” Roberts said. 

Listen to story – Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry, talks to the In Good Health podcast about the use of AI in therapy and Dartmouth’s Therabot study. “Our goal is never to reduce the human connection that folks have, but I think there are a lot of people out there who either don’t have access to a therapist or are afraid to go see a therapist,” Heinz said.

Read article – Quotes President Sian Leah Beilock and Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, in a story about the launch of Evergreen, an AI-driven platform designed to help students maintain well-being and manage stress. It is being developed by students guided by Jacobson; Lisa Marsch, a professor of psychiatry and biomedical data science; and Andrew Campbell, a professor of computer science. “Evergreen was conceived by students, for students, who are harnessing the power of AI to create a personalized behavioral health tool to promote well-being among their peers,” Beilock said.

Read article – psychiatry, talks about how AI chatbots that are confident and helpful can provide a false sense of the software’s competence. Mentions Therabot as an example of chatbots designed within clinical guidelines. “It’s harder to tell when it is actually being harmful,” Jacobson said.

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in an article about efforts to regulate AI therapy chatbots with Therabot featured as an example of careful development. “The space is so dramatically new that I think the field needs to proceed with much greater caution that is happening right now,” Jacobson said. (Also picked up by ABC News, Yahoo News, The Hindu, US News and World Report, Houston Chronicle, SF Gate, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle P-I, and others.)