{"id":192769,"date":"2025-11-21T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/192769\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:30:16","slug":"teens-seek-mental-health-help-from-chatbots-thats-dangerous-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/192769\/","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":192770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[95941,289,83888,67210,1096,5149,82629,314,15490,18,117,3334,135,83910,19,17,3521,107329,107330,107331,107328,6403,82656,610,1109,95140,3865,24176,167,502,1722,3337,107326,2983,9436,44285,83892,107327,9588,83891,864,107325,26243,82,41580],"class_list":{"0":"post-192769","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-eire","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-general-news","20":"tag-health","21":"tag-humanities","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-lifestyle","25":"tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003122874","26":"tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003122874","27":"tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003122874","28":"tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003122874","29":"tag-living","30":"tag-living-lifestyle","31":"tag-machine-learning","32":"tag-media","33":"tag-media-entertainment","34":"tag-medical-conditions","35":"tag-mental-disorders","36":"tag-mental-health","37":"tag-mentalhealth","38":"tag-meta","39":"tag-meta-platforms","40":"tag-nina-vasan","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}