The rapid rise of AI has prompted some crucial questions about its use in the mental health setting: what are the privacy implications of sharing sensitive information to chatbots? How is that data being tracked across these platforms, how is it being stored and protected – and are chatbots bound by the same professional standards as a human therapist?
In this episode of Digital Mental Health Musings, we chat to renowned socio-legal researcher Dr Piers Gooding about the legal and ethical challenges surrounding the use of chatbots and AI in mental health – what we should be cautious about, what we can learn from cases across health systems from around the world, and what existing legal and regulatory frameworks we can apply in the assessment of the tools.
Check out some of the resources we discussed in this episode:
Read more of Dr Piers Gooding's work here: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/piers-gooding
Watch our episode about the Digital Mental Health Safety and Quality Standards: https://www.emhprac.org.au/resource/s3e2/
The rapid rise of AI has prompted some crucial questions about its use in the mental health setting: what are the privacy implications of sharing sensitive information to chatbots? How is that data being tracked across these platforms, how is it being stored and protected – and are chatbots bound by the same professional standards as a human therapist?
In this episode of Digital Mental Health Musings, we chat to renowned socio-legal researcher Dr Piers Gooding about the legal and ethical challenges surrounding the use of chatbots and AI in mental health – what we should be cautious about, what we can learn from cases across health systems from around the world, and what existing legal and regulatory frameworks we can apply in the assessment of the tools.
Check out some of the resources we discussed in this episode:
Read more of Dr Piers Gooding's work here: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/piers-gooding
Watch our episode about the Digital Mental Health Safety and Quality Standards: https://www.emhprac.org.au/resource/s3e2/