Who's to Blame When a Therapy Bot Goes Wrong? -- How We Get To Next

As we see the rise of robotics for healthcare creep into the foreground, from Paro the cuddly seal cub invented to comfort elderly Japanese to the Singaporean robots exercising octogenarians, what about therapy? Even in those countries with the most developed healthcare systems, services are already stretched thin -- sometimes it takes weeks to get an initial assessment of your mental health. What if, instead, you could just log in and immediately start talking to a bot? Therapy bots are already well into development. SimSensei is currently in trials with American war veterans, tasked with treating PTSD, a wildly volatile illness.