Artificial Intelligence Can Enhance Mental Health Support By Providing Education, Assessment & Interventions

Researchers and developers believe that use of large language models (LLMs), or artificial intelligence (AI), can enhance mental health support by providing education and feedback, conducting a variety of assessments, and recommending interventions. LLMS can organize complex and abstract concepts to identify, translate, predict, and generate new content. Through AI, interactions can be performed in natural language via a chatbot, and could enhance mental health equity.

However, the successful application of AI for mental health tasks requires responsible development, testing, and deployment to ensure its effectiveness and ethical use. Further, while LLMs have already been applied to mental health-related . . .