{"id":36463,"date":"2026-08-23T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36463"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:59:09","slug":"the-wild-west-of-ai-therapy-laws-the-wall-street-journal-whats-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/the-wild-west-of-ai-therapy-laws-the-wall-street-journal-whats-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild West of AI Therapy Laws\u2014<em> The Wall Street Journal, What\u2019s News<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/whats-news\/the-wild-west-of-ai-therapy-laws\/fd691338-4068-457b-a97d-dcb702860b01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, discusses state laws restricting AI therapy tools in the context of his work developing Therabot, a generative AI mental health chatbot. Jacobson said the laws \"don\u2019t often have exemptions for these clinical products that are effective and safe.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=38ca837395&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, discusses state laws restricting AI therapy tools in the context of his work developing Therabot, a generative AI mental health chatbot. Jacobson said the laws &#8220;don\u2019t often have exemptions for these clinical products that are effective and safe.&#8221;<\/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-36463","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\/p4r3h1-9u7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36463","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=36463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36475,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36463\/revisions\/36475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}