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Read article<\/em><\/a> - 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<\/a>, Yahoo News<\/a>, The Hindu<\/a>, US News and World Report<\/a>, Houston Chronicle<\/a>, SF Gate<\/a>, St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a>, Seattle P-I<\/a>, and others.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a> – 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<\/a>, Yahoo News<\/a>, The Hindu<\/a>, US News and World Report<\/a>, Houston Chronicle<\/a>, SF Gate<\/a>, St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a>, Seattle P-I<\/a>, and others.)<\/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-24414","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\/p4r3h1-6lM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414","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=24414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24415,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24414\/revisions\/24415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}