Psychotherapy and AI 2.0: An Update.

This second column on psychotherapy and AI offers an update on progress in domains identified in the first column, including (1) provision of a private, secure, psychologically safe space for the patient to do the work, (2) mastery of a set of techniques grounded in the theoretical underpinnings of a given form of psychotherapy, and (3) addressing issues relevant to the therapeutic relationship and therapeutic alliance in AI psychotherapy. The column reviews several recent studies of AI psychotherapy and summarizes 5 sets of "threes" for categorizing and evaluating AI psychotherapy.