Dr. John Torous

Where it becomes different, and again, the transformation to telehealth and video visits, you're still connecting with kind of the same mental health provider or therapist.

You're just doing it now through a screen.

What's different about this kind of AI revolution is you're going to be connecting with someone different through a screen, a different entity.

And that's where I think the risks become a little bit higher because you don't have that same

safety system training level of what a therapist is.

Again, it'll be different and that could be potentially better.

But I think that's where you want to really make sure you put the right guardrails and structure at the beginning.

Because as Miranda said, right, we have a lot of biases and faults in the mental health system today.

AI could certainly scale those up.

We've seen the safety issues.

So it's almost if we can launch it in the right direction today.

It could go in that path, but if we launch it in the wrong direction, it could actually become very dangerous and really just a missed potential for the field.

But I do think the entire mental health space

has realized this is an amazing potential to act on.

And it's kind of been the only word on people's mind for at least the last one, if not two years.

Yes.

So I think

The path towards innovation and the vision that you share, Miranda, is going to actually be regulation and rules of the road, right?

Because if we want to get technology to be like these self-driving cars, it took a lot of research and investment that was kind of done in the same direction.

And if we have everyone pulling in a different direction, all saying their chatbot works today, it only harms the entire space and sets it backwards.