{"id":24495,"date":"2025-10-05T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=24495"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:08:21","slug":"using-ai-as-a-therapist-why-professionals-say-you-should-think-again-cnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2025\/using-ai-as-a-therapist-why-professionals-say-you-should-think-again-cnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI as a Therapist? Why Professionals Say You Should Think Again \u2014 <em>CNET<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/using-ai-as-a-therapist-why-professionals-say-you-should-think-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a> - 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/using-ai-as-a-therapist-why-professionals-say-you-should-think-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a> &#8211; psychiatry, talks about how AI chatbots that are confident and helpful can provide a false sense of the software&#8217;s competence. Mentions Therabot as an example of chatbots designed within clinical guidelines. &#8220;It&#8217;s harder to tell when it is actually being harmful,&#8221; Jacobson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-24495","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\/p4r3h1-6n5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495","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=24495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24496,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495\/revisions\/24496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}