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Government report
National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare: Recommendations for a future regulatory framework
Final report of the UK National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare, established in September 2025 to advise government on a regulatory framework for software and AI-enabled health tec…
Preprint
Scalable Oversight for AI in Mental Health: Lessons from 350,000 AI Coaching Conversations between Therapy Sessions
Deployment report from Grow Therapy, a US behavioural-health company whose network of more than 25,000 licensed clinicians offers clients an AI coaching tool for use between therapy sessions. Drawing…
Peer-reviewed
How emotional response styles of generative AI companions shape adaptive emotion regulation and short-term AI reliance
Two-condition randomized experiment with 380 adults in Guangzhou, China, comparing a generative-AI companion whose replies to negative emotion were adaptive regulation-oriented (validating the feelin…
Peer-reviewed
Feasibility of human-in-the-loop multimodal generative artificial intelligence chatbot for school-based adolescent mental health support
Prospective, non-randomized, waitlist-controlled pilot at a junior high school in Zhejiang Province, China, of 'Duoduo', an acceptance-and-commitment-therapy-informed multimodal generative-AI chatbot…
Preprint
Delusions and Harms Associated with AI Chatbot Use: Early Evidence from 185 Real-World Reports
Cross-sectional secondary analysis of 185 deidentified accounts of mental-health harm linked with AI chatbot use (95 first-hand, 90 from relatives, partners or friends) submitted through the web form…
Preprint
Living with AI Companions: Sustained AI Companionship Predicts Lower Well-Being Through Lower Human Interaction
Two-wave longitudinal survey of Character.AI users (1,182 at baseline, 439 at follow-up a mean of 12 months later, fielded between September 2024 and May 2026) testing whether interaction intensity,…
Benchmark / dataset
LongCounsel-8: A Benchmark Suite for Longitudinal Depression Tracking from Multi-Session Counseling Dialogues
Synthetic benchmark suite for estimating depression severity and its change across multi-session counselling dialogue: three independently generated editions totalling 7,749 five-session trajectories…
Peer-reviewed
Judged by humans, comforted by machines: How psychological expectations shape experiences and perceptions of AI support
Examines how people experience and perceive social support from AI after minor aversive experiences such as rude interactions or social slights. Drawing on mind-perception theory, the authors propose…
Peer-reviewed
Mourning the loss of AI companions
Develops an attachment-based account in which AI companions function as attachment figures, so that company-initiated product updates produce separation distress. Two natural experiments, Replika's r…
Peer-reviewed
Privacy assurances and professional-boundary warnings in generative AI mental health chatbots: a randomized vignette experiment on calibrated trust, overreliance risk, and professional help-seeking intentions
2 by 2 randomized vignette experiment with 768 Chinese college students testing whether a privacy-assurance message and a professional-boundary warning in a mental-health chatbot interface change per…
Peer-reviewed
Large Language Model–Based Behavioral Activation Chatbot for Young People With Depression Using Artificial Users and Clinical Experts: Mixed Methods Evaluation
Evaluates how well a GPT-4o-based chatbot with a structured system prompt delivers a single-session behavioural-activation intervention for people with depression aged 14 to 29. Forty-eight sessions…
Peer-reviewed
Exploring Real-World Use of AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support: Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Online survey in two Belgian samples of people who use AI chatbots for mental-health support, examining how, why and which individuals use them. A student sample was screened for eligible users and a…
Preprint
Assessing Suicide Risk in Arabic Crisis Helpline Calls: A Comparison of Arabic and English Large Language Models
Evaluates suicide-risk classification from de-identified transcripts of calls to Lebanon's National Lifeline for Emotional Support and Suicide Prevention. Calls were transcribed on site with a Levant…
Preprint
Sources of Truth: A Multi-Platform, Multilingual Audit of Citations in AI Mental Health Information Queries
An audit of what three free consumer generative-search products (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview) cite when answering mental-health questions. Twenty English questions were run under two prom…
Peer-reviewed
Affective Generative Artificial Intelligence Use and Youth Mental Health
Cross-sectional study of 39,761 students in grades 4-12 across four Ontario school boards (Ontario Health and Peer Relations Study, May 2025 - March 2026) examining the association between affective…
Peer-reviewed
Are You Qualified, ChatGPT? Examining Clinical Skills and Competencies of ChatGPT in Delivering Systemic Interventions
Pilot study assessing the clinical and cultural competence of a custom GPT configured to deliver systemic (couple and family therapy) interventions aligned with the AAMFT Code of Ethics and core comp…
Peer-reviewed
Generative Large Language Models in Mental Health Care Settings: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
PRISMA systematic review of quantitative studies evaluating general-purpose large language models for direct mental health care tasks, searched across PubMed, Embase, ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore…
Peer-reviewed
Coming of Age With Generative Artificial Intelligence: The High Stakes of Automating Adolescent Development
Synthesis in Perspectives on Psychological Science of interdisciplinary research on how adolescents' use of generative AI chatbots may uniquely affect the key psychosocial developmental tasks of adol…
Peer-reviewed
Latent profiles of generative artificial intelligence use among Chinese college students: Associations with depression and anxiety
Cross-sectional survey of 5,748 Chinese college students identifying four latent profiles of generative-AI use (Rational-Tool, Moderate-Recreational, Problem-Dependent, Light-Exploratory) and their a…
Lab publication
Funding better evaluations of AI's impact on wellbeing
Announcement of a $5 million grant programme funding independent research into how AI affects user wellbeing, offering money, model access and technical support to teams building open-source evaluati…