Tilly Norwood, a 100 percent AI -generated actress, made her debut during the Zurich Film Festival. She’s currently ruffling feathers on the red carpet . As a child and adolescent clinical psychologist, I don’t need a crystal ball to predict where concerns will swell next.

Recent deaths by suicide and behavioral health crises have spotlighted American teens and their use of generic AI chatbots for mental health. To be clear, neither Tilly nor her designers is claiming that she is there to offer mental health support. But that is true of all generic AI chatbots: They were neither designed nor intended for mental health treatment, yet these technologies are being used for that very purpose.

Regulating this space and building a clinical evidence base for digital health technologies th

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