An AI avatar is tested against the PTSD diagnostic gold standard

What happened

US military researchers began the first US study comparing Mentaily's "LIV" AI avatar against the CAPS clinician-administered PTSD scale, the current diagnostic gold standard. The Uniformed Services University researcher cites evaluator time and cost burden, and Israeli pilot data suggesting patients disclose suicidal ideation more readily to an avatar than a person. This moves the AI-evidence question from therapy to diagnosis, where an established gold standard makes the comparison unusually falsifiable; the disclosure claim is the one to watch. (MobiHealthNews)

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