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A Risk Ontology for Evaluating AI-Powered Psychotherapy Virtual Agents

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Main Authors:	Steenstra, Ian, Bickmore, Timothy W.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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