AI can tell if you a therapy session will be effective

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most common types of talk therapy in the United States. There are 11 criteria that cognitive behavioral therapists-in-training are normally judged on. What if their skills could be evaluated and improved with feedback from AI? This is the crux of new research from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington. It's the first study of CBT sessions done with real people in real, therapeutic conversations. The findings were recently published in PLOS One.