As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called Sonny to help. As described in the ...

Laestadius and her colleagues looked at nearly 600 posts on the online forum Reddit between 2017 and 2021, in which users of the Replika app discussed mental health and related issues.

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.

It's not uncommon for generative AI chatbots to falter. It wasn't long after Microsoft released its consumer-focused generative AI assistant, Sydney, that it went viral with its own hallucinations .

Suicide lawsuit filed as teen chatbot raises mental health and privacy alarms. by The National News Desk. Thu, March 6th 2025 at 10:43 AM. FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo illustration, ...

Mental health app Headspace has launched a generative AI-powered chatbot called Ebb for users to get instant, personalized support through life’s ebbs and flows, the company exclusively told ...

Dartmouth’s AI chatbot Therabot cut depression symptoms by 51% in a trial, showing promise as a scalable mental health tool amid provider shortages.

With about one in eight women experiencing postpartum depression, amid a shortage of mental health providers, researchers at the University of Texas are looking to bridge the gap with an AI chatbot.

Her teen daughter built an AI chatbot that helps with mental health. We hear so many negative stories about AI nowadays, from the way it can make "fake news" indistinguishable from the truth to ...

BOSTON, June 11, 2025--Wysa, the global leader in AI-guided mental health support, today announces the US launch of Wysa Gateway, an AI-powered chatbot designed to streamline how therapy providers ...