{"id":25512,"date":"2026-02-20T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=25512"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:20:11","slug":"lawmakers-target-mental-health-chatbots-pluribus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/lawmakers-target-mental-health-chatbots-pluribus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Target Mental Health Chatbots\u2014<em>Pluribus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=c7a1beedcd&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read articl<\/a>e<\/em>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data and psychiatry, is quoted in a story about states' legislation to regulate therapy chatbots. The story mentions Jacobson's Therabot study and his recent op-ed and testimony about New Hampshire Senate Bill 640. \"These systems need to be designed to mitigate the risks,\" Jacobson said. \"But at the same time there is a lot of promise here.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=c7a1beedcd&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read articl<\/a>e<\/em>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data and psychiatry, is quoted in a story about states&#8217; legislation to regulate therapy chatbots. The story mentions Jacobson&#8217;s Therabot study and his recent op-ed and testimony about New Hampshire Senate Bill 640. &#8220;These systems need to be designed to mitigate the risks,&#8221; Jacobson said. &#8220;But at the same time there is a lot of promise here.&#8221;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-25512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-6Du","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25512","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=25512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25513,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25512\/revisions\/25513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}