Article Excerpt: Last month, a team at Dartmouth announced the creation of Evergreen, a student wellness tool which harnesses data including sleep patterns and stress-indicators to measure students’ mental health and respond with nudges or personalized recommendations. “Evergreen might sense you’re feeling lonely. It might nudge you to grab a coffee and catch up with a particular friend—because it knows that works for you,” says Professor Andrew Campbell, who is co-leading the project.
Evergreen is currently being developed and tested by more than 100 paid Dartmouth students, and will start trials with students in early 2026. One of its creators, Nicholas Jacobson, previously spearheaded Therabot, the first AI therapy chatbot to undergo a clinical trial. Jacobson acknowledges that there are “major ways” in which implementing AI into mental health care can be harmful. “But I think all of those can be mitigated in systems that are really well and rigorously designed,” he tells TIME.
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Article Source: Time Magazine’s In the Loop Newsletter