{"id":224625,"date":"2025-11-06T01:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-shortcomings-of-ai-responses-to-mental-health-crises"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:19:25","slug":"the-shortcomings-of-ai-responses-to-mental-health-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-shortcomings-of-ai-responses-to-mental-health-crises","title":{"rendered":"The shortcomings of AI responses to mental health crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-shortcomings-of-ai-responses-to-mental-health-crises.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine someone in a mental health crisis\u2014instead of calling a helpline\u2014typing their desperate thoughts into an app window? This is happening more and more often in a world dominated by artificial intelligence. For many young people, a chatbot becomes the first confidant of emotions that can lead to tragedy. The question is: can artificial intelligence respond appropriately at all?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Wroclaw Medical University decided to find out. They tested 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/popular+apps\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">popular apps<\/a> that advertise themselves as mental health support. The results are alarming\u2014not a single chatbot met the criteria for an adequate response to escalating suicidal risk.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-17242-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine someone in a mental health crisis\u2014instead of calling a helpline\u2014typing their desperate thoughts into an app window? This is happening more and more often in a world dominated by artificial intelligence. For many young people, a chatbot becomes the first confidant of emotions that can lead to tragedy. The question is: can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}