Dr. John Torous

And the type of kind of regulation rules of the road we need are not strict.

They'll be very transparent on how the bot works, what are the successes, what are the failures.

And when they compare and say, I'm effective,

They need to say, compared to what?

They need to say, am I compared to a therapist, compared to nothing, compared to a bot about the weather?

So as long as we have the facts and transparency, what I love about the scientific process and clinical research is things will get better quickly.

This is not going to take...

15 years.

Self-driving cars have been around for a long time.

They're just getting better.

AI is moving quick.

It may not be ready to be an autonomous therapist in six months.

But if we could at least say, look, we all want to have some standards on what we do, what we report, we'll either figure out what works or doesn't work much quicker.

But the risk is everyone says their chatbot is effective.

No one talks about the risks.

And then consumers and clinicians are left trying to guess what to do.

And what happens is then patients, peers are smart.

Clinicians are smart.

We'll say, we're not going to use this stuff.

It's too dangerous.