Hiland Honored for Chatbot Warning
Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, smartphone applications, and other “telemental” services are promoted as innovative solutions to skyrocketing rates of depression, anxiety, and mental distress. But they pose an array of harms, writes Emma Bedor Hiland in “How Smart Tech Tried to Solve the Mental Health Crisis and Only Made It Worse,” the winner of the 2022 David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society.