{"id":36166,"date":"2026-06-16T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36166"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:51:23","slug":"can-a-chatbot-be-your-therapist-a-growing-number-of-states-say-nopluribus-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/can-a-chatbot-be-your-therapist-a-growing-number-of-states-say-nopluribus-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a chatbot be your therapist? A growing number of states say no\u2014<em>Pluribus News<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=c7cd97048f&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> biomedical data science and psychiatry, discusses state efforts to restrict AI-powered mental health chatbots. Jacobson argued that lawmakers are targeting clinically tested tools such as Therabot while leaving general-purpose chatbots largely unregulated, saying \"60 million Americans with mental illness receive no treatment.\" (Similar coverage in <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=69da3154f6&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=69da3154f6&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" data-outlook-id=\"17d163eb-bfeb-443d-ae95-ea5a271c1229\">Tennessee Journal<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=c7cd97048f&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate pr<span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span>essor <span class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\">of<\/span> biomedical data science and psychiatry, discusses state efforts to restrict AI-powered mental health chatbots. Jacobson argued that lawmakers are targeting clinically tested tools such as Therabot while leaving general-purpose chatbots largely unregulated, saying &#8220;60 million Americans with mental illness receive no treatment.&#8221; (Similar coverage in <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=69da3154f6&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=69da3154f6&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" data-outlook-id=\"17d163eb-bfeb-443d-ae95-ea5a271c1229\">Tennessee Journal<\/a>.)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-36166","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\/p4r3h1-9pk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36166","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=36166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36180,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36166\/revisions\/36180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}