
Who Is Counseling Our Children?
If every American teenager and young adult now seeking mental health advice from an AI chatbot lived in one state, that state would be larger than my home state of Virginia. A new study published June 1 in JAMA Pediatrics found that approximately 8.2 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 21 have already turned to AI chatbots for emotional support, guidance, or mental health advice, nearly one in five young people. Almost two-thirds never told anyone they were doing so.





