Repetitiveness, complicated setups, and lack of personalization deter users. Here are six features to enhance user engagement of psychological AI apps and chatbots.

• A new type of "AI replica identity theft" may cause psychological harms of stress and anxiety.

• Permission and informed consent are essential before creating or sharing a person's AI replica.

• AI replicas can have psychological effects on the real person and their loved ones, which should be considered.

While AI cannot replace clinicians, AI can draft accurate and empathic responses. A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that AI tools could help physicians by drafting high-quality and empathic written responses to patients.

Wearable AI for anxiety detection and prediction is a promising tool but is not yet ready to be used clinically for diagnosis without additional clinical assessment.

Whether people adopt self-driving cars may come down to trust and enjoyment.

ChatGPT can identify and describe human emotions in hypothetical scenarios, but this does not necessarily demonstrate emotional intelligence.

AI-generated faces have become indistinguishable from human ones and can be perceived as even more trustworthy than actual human faces. New research finds that AI-generated faces can appear more real than actual human ones—a phenomenon the researchers call "AI hyperrealism."

AI systems can be trained to offer empathic language in real-time, based on entered text and offer collaborative feedback to users. Users that experience more difficulty with offering empathic expressions will be most likely to benefit from such AI tools.

AI chatbots are promising for certain types of therapy that are more structured and skills-based (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, or health coaching).

Digital immortality refers to uploading, storing, or transferring a person's personality into a digital entity or cyberspace. As the technology of digital immortality becomes more popular and available, people will find new ways of using AI digital personas, twins, clones or replicas. Researchers are currently studying human-AI social relationships, and the psychological impacts are not yet entirely known.