Conversational AI Outperforms Group Therapy for Anxiety in Landmark Clinical Trial

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Conversational AI Outperforms Group Therapy for Anxiety in Landmark Clinical Trial
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A randomized clinical trial demonstrates that conversational AI platforms significantly outperform traditional group therapy and waitlist controls for anxiety reduction in university students, with perceived therapeutic alliance emerging as a critical mechanism linking engagement to symptom improvement.

Original paper: Efficacy of a Conversational AI Agent for Psychiatric Symptoms and Digital Therapeutic Alliance: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA network open. 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.6713

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