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Morning Edition · Monday, August 24, 2026Published at 3:20 AM EDT · New York
Paper Finds Therapy Chatbots Misread the Vocabulary of the Teenagers Already Using Them
An arXiv submission cites 13.1 percent of United States adolescents, about 5.4 million people, turning to generative AI for mental health advice, then documents where the models' clinical reasoning breaks on their language.
Conversational AI has become an informal mental health resource for people born between 2010 and 2024, and the scale is no longer marginal. A paper posted to arXiv on 24 August cites 13.1 percent of United States adolescents, roughly 5.4 mi…
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