AI harms patients, mental health workers say

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If a patient does not have the ability to regulate their emotions through skills, they will become overwhelmed incredibly quickly, and we will have them in crisis.”

– Erin Quinlan, a behavioral specialist at a Rogers facility in Madison, Wisconsin, who says she has noticed many patients placed in an inappropriate level or type of care since Rogers began using the AI system Limbic.

To understand some of the ways that AI is affecting mental health care, Nick Romeo of Capital & Main spoke with more than a dozen therapists, clinicians, academic experts and advocates in Wisconsin and California, who said the hasty integration of the technology is eroding patients’ access to timely and appropriate mental health care.

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