How AI Could Transform Mental Health Care

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Artificial intelligence is being put to work across various fields in the hopes that it can solve some of our most pressing problems. Among them: a growing demand for mental health services and a shortage of providers. Researchers say the technology has the potential to vastly improve patient access, lighten therapist workloads and combat disparities in quality of care but warn of the risks of deploying AI too soon, with vulnerable patients left to bear the brunt of early mistakes. Others question whether AI belongs anywhere near a therapist’s couch. We’ll talk to psychologists and researchers about how AI might transform the mental health industry and how to avoid the worst imagined outcomes. Guests: Jodi Halpern, professor of bioethics and chancellor's chair, University of California, Berkeley Lloyd Minor, dean, Stanford University School of Medicine Mainul Mondal, founder and CEO, Ellipsis Health Betsy Stade, clinical psychologist and postdoctoral researcher, Stanford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.3	Depression and anxiety have been skyrocketing in America in recent years.
0:55.0	According to a Gallup poll, nearly 30% of adults have been diagnosed with depression at some point.
1:01.0	At the same time, there's a serious shortage of mental health care providers.
1:06.0	A new set of artificial intelligence tools are rolling out to address this gap, bringing with them the potential to vastly improve patient access and combat disparities in quality of care.
1:18.9	We consider the promise and perils of deploying new AI tools in mental health care.
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1:37.1	Welcome to Forum. I'm Priya David Clemens in for Alexis Madrigal. Artificial intelligence
1:43.2	is entering our lives in all sorts of ways these days,
1:47.3	but are we ready for it in places that seem to demand the human touch? We're talking about the use
1:52.4	of AI in mental health care. Chatbots are already talking with patients on apps, and AI language
1:59.7	analysis is diagnosing patients.
2:02.2	Joining us to wrap our heads around how AI is used in mental health now, how it might be used in the future,
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