Background: Chatbots are an emerging technology that show potential for mental health
care apps to enable effective and practical evidence-based therapies. As this technology is …

Introduction Increasing demand for mental health services and the expanding capabilities of
artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has driven the development of digital mental health …

There has been a recent surge of interest in social chatbots, and human–chatbot
relationships (HCRs) are becoming more prevalent, but little knowledge exists on how …

Chatbots are increasingly becoming important gateways to digital services and information—
taken up within domains such as customer service, health, education, and work support …

In this Series paper, we explore the promises and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI)-
based precision medicine tools in mental health care from clinical, ethical, and regulatory …

Social chatbot (SC) applications offering social companionship and basic therapy tools have
grown in popularity for emotional, social, and psychological support. While use appears to …

Chatbots have great potential to serve as a low-cost, effective tool to support people's self-
disclosure. Prior work has shown that reciprocity occurs in human-machine dialog; however …

Conversational artificial intelligence (CAI) presents many opportunities in the
psychotherapeutic landscape—such as therapeutic support for people with mental health …

With the advent of digital approaches to mental health, modern artificial intelligence (AI), and
machine learning in particular, is being used in the development of prediction, detection and …

Chatbots are artificial communication systems becoming increasingly popular and not all
their security questions are clearly solved. People use chatbots for assistance in shopping …