{"id":308388,"date":"2025-11-25T19:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:58:30","slug":"teens-seek-mental-health-help-from-chatbots-thats-dangerous-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308388\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens Seek Mental-Health Help From Chatbots. That\u2019s Dangerous, Says New Study."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Teens regularly turn to generative-AI chatbots in search of mental-health support. A report on a study said this practice is one of the most dangerous uses of the technology.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Artificial intelligence can miss critical warning signs and fail to detect psychiatric emergencies, yet because the chatbots show competence in some areas, teens might assume they are reliable for mental-health support, the study found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teens regularly turn to generative-AI chatbots in search of mental-health support. A report on a study said this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[93607,254,31340,31344,64,63,8216,9958,40177,257,40201,134,482,137,31361,1625,175322,175323,175324,175321,3322,175317,2565,1685,175316,57233,28510,514,515,1333,32979,175319,23922,21298,31345,175318,175320,8173,31346,8247,175315,31350,105,31352],"class_list":["post-308388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-applications-software","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-computer-science","tag-computers","tag-computers-consumer-electronics","tag-computing","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-humanities","tag-lifestyle","tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003122874","tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003122874","tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003122874","tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003122874","tag-living","tag-living-lifestyle","tag-machine-learning","tag-media","tag-media-entertainment","tag-medical-conditions","tag-mental-disorders","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-meta","tag-meta-platforms","tag-nina-vasan","tag-personal-technology","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-risk-topics-artificial-intelligence","tag-robbie-torney","tag-sciences","tag-sciences-humanities","tag-software","tag-software-agents","tag-synd","tag-technology","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}