{"id":151752,"date":"2025-11-24T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151752\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:46:23","slug":"teens-seek-mental-health-help-from-chatbots-thats-dangerous-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151752\/","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":151753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[101224,363,89153,52235,5477,372,101223,371,16287,156,3717,134,101237,263,101234,101235,101236,101233,4188,101226,2489,1073,71279,101227,3182,554,555,898,33438,111,139,101231,69,5543,18154,47881,101229,101232,9542,101228,8183,101225,19201,145,101230],"class_list":{"0":"post-151752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-applications-software","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","12":"tag-computer-science","13":"tag-computers","14":"tag-computers-consumer-electronics","15":"tag-computing","16":"tag-consumer-electronics","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-general-news","19":"tag-health","20":"tag-humanities","21":"tag-lifestyle","22":"tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003122874","23":"tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003122874","24":"tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003122874","25":"tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003122874","26":"tag-living","27":"tag-living-lifestyle","28":"tag-machine-learning","29":"tag-media","30":"tag-media-entertainment","31":"tag-medical-conditions","32":"tag-mental-disorders","33":"tag-mental-health","34":"tag-mentalhealth","35":"tag-meta","36":"tag-meta-platforms","37":"tag-new-zealand","38":"tag-newzealand","39":"tag-nina-vasan","40":"tag-nz","41":"tag-personal-technology","42":"tag-political","43":"tag-political-general-news","44":"tag-risk-topics-artificial-intelligence","45":"tag-robbie-torney","46":"tag-sciences","47":"tag-sciences-humanities","48":"tag-software","49":"tag-software-agents","50":"tag-synd","51":"tag-technology","52":"tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}