Regulating Artificial Intelligence Design to Prevent Youth Mental Health Harms
This Viewpoint addresses poor mental health outcomes among youths who use artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and explores the AI safety failures that warrant evaluation and regulation to improve such outcomes.
Authors
- Benjamin A. Barsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5058-4428)
- Jonathan Cantor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4468-833X)
- Li Ang Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9468-2513)
- Ryan K. McBain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-0348)
Institutions
- RAND Corporation (US)
- Harvard University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Health Forum
- Published
- 2026-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3119
- Primary Topic
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00