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17% of psychiatrists see technology replacing humans in providing empathetic care, according to Sermo survey

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Healthcare researchers have been exploring the use of artificial intelligence to help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder by analyzing a patient's speech and to help treat anxiety and depression. Could AI replace a psychiatrist's role in providing mental health care? Most psychiatrists don't see AI making their jobs obsolete, according to a recent survey from Sermo, a social platform for physicians. Sermo teamed up with psychiatry and health technology researchers at Duke University School of Medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School to query nearly 800 psychiatrists in 22 countries about the potential benefits and risks of using AI and machine learning in mental health and the impact on the field of psychiatry. Only 4% of psychiatrists believe AI will be able to replace, not just assist, human doctors in performing complex psychiatric tasks.