{"id":23980,"date":"2025-08-06T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=23980"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:15:29","slug":"tech-firms-states-look-to-rein-in-ai-chatbots-mental-health-advice-axios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2025\/tech-firms-states-look-to-rein-in-ai-chatbots-mental-health-advice-axios\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Firms, States Look to Rein in AI Chatbots&#8217; Mental Health Advice \u2014 <em>Axios<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/08\/06\/ai-chatbots-mental-health-state-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a> - <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/faculty\/facultydb\/view.php\/?uid=7305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Jacobson, PhD<\/a>, an associate professor of biomedical data science, psychiatry, and computer science, comments on state and industry efforts to curb unvetted AI from providing mental health therapy. \"I think it would require ... some new oversight institution to actually do this effectively,\" Jacobson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/08\/06\/ai-chatbots-mental-health-state-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a> &#8211; <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/faculty\/facultydb\/view.php\/?uid=7305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Jacobson, PhD<\/a>, an associate professor of biomedical data science, psychiatry, and computer science, comments on state and industry efforts to curb unvetted AI from providing mental health therapy. &#8220;I think it would require &#8230; some new oversight institution to actually do this effectively,&#8221; Jacobson said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1225],"class_list":["post-23980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-ai","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-6eM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23981,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23980\/revisions\/23981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}