Are mental health apps like doctors, yogis, drugs or supplements?

Millions of people are using ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence tools for therapy, but with little government regulation, there's no guarantee these apps are helping—or that they won't cause harm. Cornell researchers are recommending new guidelines for developing safe and responsible large language model (LLM)-based mental well-being apps by consulting relevant experts and reviewing existing state and federal regulations. They proposed four ways to think about the apps, based on whether or not they guarantee certain benefits and how reliably those benefits are delivered.