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Clinical AIAugust 17, 2026Source: VTDigger

Can a chatbot be a responsible therapist? Dartmouth professor aims to find out

Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health reports the first peer‑reviewed clinical results for **Therabot**, a generative AI mental health chatbot tested in controlled research settings. The article explores how Therabot was designed, what clinical outcomes were observed, and why researchers insist it is an AI agent rather than a human therapist, underscoring questions of responsibility and therapeutic boundaries.

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