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Adolescent Health and Generative AI-Risks and Benefits
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This Viewpoint explores how generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools may affect adolescent health and well-being in the following domains: health information, cognition, critical thinking, mental health, body image, social connection, physical activity, and sleep.
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“In health and mental health contexts, generative AI sometimes provides inaccurate or unsafe advice, which is especially concerning because many teens follow chatbot guidance without critical evaluation [94, 146].”
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“Additional harms include emotional dependency, social withdrawal, toxic or deceptive content, discrimination, and privacy risks, which often intensify with repeated use [94, 146].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nagata, J. M., Memon, Z., Huang, O., & Moreno, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
- Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
- Venue
- JAMA Pediatrics
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2026-01-01
- Volume
- 180
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7
- ISSN
- 2168-6203
- PMC
- PMC12621494
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 3
- Language
- en
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