Can AI-Powered Mental Health Apps Meaningfully Improve Wellbeing?
A VoxDev article by FOS Affiliate Raissa Fabregas and co-authors on how AI-powered mental health apps can improve users' wellbeing, daily functioning, labour market outcomes, and their engagement with formal care.
The rapid growth of AI has generated both excitement and scepticism across many sectors, including mental health care. This work shows that AI-enabled digital mental health tools can generate considerable improvements in wellbeing at relatively low cost. Moreover, these tools may help high-need individuals access formal care by lowering non-monetary barriers to treatment.