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Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School said, “If you’re really worried about people using your app for mental health services, you want a disclaimer that’s more direct…” He suggested, “This is just for fun.”

哈佛法学院的格伦·科恩说：“如果你真的担心人们使用你的应用程序提供心理健康服务，你需要一个更直接的免责声明……”他建议说，“这只是为了好玩。”

Still, chatbots are already playing a role due to an ongoing shortage of mental health professionals.

尽管如此，由于心理健康专业人员持续短缺，聊天机器人已经发挥了作用。

Britain’s National Health Service has begun offering a chatbot called Wysa to help with stress, anxiety and depression among young people.

英国国家医疗服务体系已开始提供名为 Wysa 的聊天机器人，以帮助年轻人缓解压力、焦虑和抑郁。

This includes those people waiting to see a therapist. Some health insurers, universities, and hospitals in the United States are offering similar programs.

这包括那些等待看治疗师的人。 美国的一些健康保险公司、大学和医院也提供类似的计划。

Dr. Angela Skrzynski is a family doctor in the American state of New Jersey. When she tells her patients how long it will take to see a therapist, she says they are usually very open to trying a chatbot. Her employer, Virtua Health, offers Woebot to some adult patients.

Angela Skrzynski 医生是美国新泽西州的一名家庭医生。 当她告诉患者需要多长时间才能见治疗师时，她说他们通常非常愿意尝试聊天机器人。 她的雇主 Virtua Health 向一些成年患者提供 Woebot。

Founded in 2017 by a Stanford-trained psychologist, Woebot does not use AI programs. The chatbot uses thousands of structured language models written by its staff and researchers.

Woebot 由一位斯坦福大学培训的心理学家于 2017 年创立，不使用人工智能程序。 该聊天机器人使用由其员工和研究人员编写的数千个结构化语言模型。

Woebot founder Alison Darcy says this rules-based model is safer for health care use. The company is testing generative AI models, but Darcy says there have been problems with the technology.

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