{"id":157741,"date":"2025-11-24T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157741\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:06:25","slug":"teens-seek-mental-health-help-from-chatbots-thats-dangerous-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157741\/","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":157742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[88735,218,58433,44772,1444,4312,58432,241,24873,93,1595,103,88747,61,60,166,88744,88745,88746,88743,1605,85514,3045,1634,88737,88738,417,410,411,1226,2393,88741,5452,13943,58444,88740,88742,5203,88739,5685,88736,16614,80,58452],"class_list":["post-157741","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-computer-science","tag-computers","tag-computers-consumer-electronics","tag-computing","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-humanities","tag-ie","tag-ireland","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}