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TheraBot

In March 2025, Dartmouth researchers published results from the first-ever clinical trial of an AI therapy chatbot, providing care comparable to “gold-standard cognitive therapy” and showing improvements across depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

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Are AI chatbots effective at changing political opinions?

A recent large scale study of over 77,000 adults based in the UK, who were paid to participate, asked for people’s views on political topics, such as taxes and immigration - then an AI chatbot tried to change their mind, to an opposing view.

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Detecting Cancer

One of the most powerful, and life-changing uses of AI is in the detection of cancer.

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