{"id":212770,"date":"2025-10-14T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/212770\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:57:12","slug":"lyra-health-launches-clinical-grade-mental-health-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/212770\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyra Health launches \u2018clinical-grade\u2019 mental health chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech\u2019s promise. He\u2019s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter<\/a>. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.<\/p>\n

Lyra Health on Tuesday announced its members will be able to talk about their mental health with a chatbot, making it the largest company to launch a generative artificial intelligence product as a part of ongoing therapy treatment.<\/p>\n

With its chatbot, called Lyra AI, the company joins a bevy of smaller mental health startups that have taken varying approaches to incorporating generative AI into their offerings. It\u2019s further confirmation that companies are barreling ahead with using products powered by large language models in care even as there\u2019s concern from experts, regulators, and lawmakers<\/a> that the tech can behave unpredictably. Already there\u2019s evidence that widely available consumer bots such as ChatGPT are causing people to spiral into delusions<\/a>, and bots have allegedly been involved in cases in which users harmed themselves<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also evidence<\/a> that many people are already using consumer chatbots as a therapist, and it was this popularity that led Lyra to begin developing its own offering last year, said Jenny Gonsalves, the company\u2019s chief product and technology officer.<\/p>\n

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