Article Excerpt: New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as — or more than — human clinicians.
The recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows results from the first randomized clinical trial for AI therapy.
Researchers from Dartmouth College built the bot as a way of taking a new approach to a longstanding problem: The U.S. continues to grapple with an acute shortage of mental health providers. “I think one of the things that doesn’t scale well is humans,” says Nick Jacobson, a clinical psychologist who was part of this research team. For every 340 people in the U.S., there is just one mental health clinician, according to some estimates.
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