By Lance Eliot
Publication Date: 2025-11-22 08:15:00
It is timely and important to establish guidelines and regulations for AI for mental health.
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In today’s column, I present a comprehensive set of policy considerations for regulating AI that provides guidance for mental health. This is an important look at the range and depth of measures that should be given due consideration.
Please note that new laws are rapidly being enacted at the state level that take a haphazard approach to regulating AI in the mental health space. They are a coincidence in the sense that they tend to cover only a subset of the full spectrum of policy aspects that need to be addressed. The resulting laws ignore considerations that then leave regulatory gaps and create confusion about the intentions regarding these unspecified conditions.
Therefore, in this discussion, I offer a comprehensive perspective that can be used by policymakers and other stakeholders. In addition, researchers work in the areas of AI, governance, politics, law, ethics, behavioral sciences and psychology.
