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New technologies are helping aging adults navigate complicated health care benefits, but it does come with some challenges. Here's what to know. Here's How AI Chatbots Are Simplifying Health Care ...

An AI-powered chatbot developed by computer scientists at Keele University has the potential to "transform" mental health care by removing existing barriers to mental health support, the ...

A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

And now, as we first reported last spring, AI is probing that most human of places, our psyches -- offering mental health support, just you and a chatbot, available 24/7 on your smartphone.

Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high ...

The chatbot also represents the risky yet essential innovation happening at the intersection of mental health care and technology. There's no research on whether confiding your fears or ...

AI chatbots offer 24/7 access to mental health resources, making mental health care more accessible. AI chatbots offer a private and non-judgmental space for individuals to discuss their mental ...

And who’s responsible if the chatbot’s responses harm a young person, or if it doesn’t recognize serious signs of self-harm or other mental health struggles that endanger their safety?