{"id":194794,"date":"2026-03-11T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/colorado-lawmakers-look-to-limit-artificial-intelligence-use-in-licensed-therapy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:40:10","slug":"colorado-lawmakers-look-to-limit-artificial-intelligence-use-in-licensed-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/colorado-lawmakers-look-to-limit-artificial-intelligence-use-in-licensed-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado lawmakers look to limit artificial intelligence use in licensed therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denver7.com\/news\/politics\/colorado-lawmakers-look-to-limit-artificial-intelligence-use-in-licensed-therapy\">Colorado lawmakers look to limit artificial intelligence use in licensed therapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denver7.com\/news\/politics\/colorado-lawmakers-look-to-limit-artificial-intelligence-use-in-licensed-therapy\">https:\/\/www.denver7.com\/news\/politics\/colorado-lawmakers-look-to-limit-artificial-intelligence-use-in-licensed-therapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 08:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.denver7.com\">www.denver7.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colorado lawmakers are proposing a bill, HB26-1195, to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in mental healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>The bill aims to prohibit AI from directly interacting with patients or generating treatment plans without human oversight.<\/li>\n<li>It also bars the use of AI to detect emotions or mental states of clients, and mandates informed consent for recording or transcribing therapeutic sessions via AI.<\/li>\n<li>Representative Gretchen Rydin, a licensed clinical social worker and bill sponsor, voiced concerns about the unsafe misconceptions of AI-provided therapy as professional advice.<\/li>\n<li>Rydin believes there are beneficial administrative uses for AI in mental healthcare, like scheduling and note-taking, but emphasizes that actual psychotherapy should be conducted by humans.<\/li>\n<li>The bill has received bipartisan support and was unanimously approved by the committee last week.<\/li>\n<li>The proposal is set for debate in the Colorado House of Representatives this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado lawmakers look to limit artificial intelligence use in licensed therapy https:\/\/www.denver7.com\/news\/politics\/colorado-lawmakers-look-to-limit-artificial-intelligence-use-in-licensed-therapy Publish Date: 2026-03-11&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/4cb8e23\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2000x1050+0+142\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fewscripps.brightspotcdn.com%2F83%2Fc4%2F793658314257971e5bef3897f589%2Fap25197161776010.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-194794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194796,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194794\/revisions\/194796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}