Key Takeaways

1 in 8 U.S. teens and young adults are using AI chatbots as mental health advisors

Use is most common among those 18 to 21

Two-thirds seek advice monthly

MONDAY, Nov. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — About 1 in every 8 U.S. teenagers and young adults turns to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for mental health advice, a new study says.

AI bots offer a cheap and immediate ear for younger people’s concerns, worries and woes, researchers wrote Nov. 7 in JAMA Network Open .

However, it’s not clear that these programs are up to the challenge, researchers warned.

“There are few standardized benchmarks for evaluating mental health advice offered by AI chatbots, and there is limited transparency about the datasets that are used to train these large language models,” investi

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