Physician Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Therapeutic Relationship in Mental Health Care: Qualitative Study

Isabel B Weir   ^{1, 2} , BA ;   Austin M Stroud   ¹ , MA ;   Jeremiah J Stout   ^{3, 4} , MD ;   Barbara A Barry   ⁵ , PhD ;   Arjun P Athreya   ^{6, 7} , MS, PhD ;   William V Bobo   ⁸ , MPH, MD ;   Richard R Sharp   ¹ , PhD

¹ Biomedical Ethics Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

² Radcliffe Humanities, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

³ Alix School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

⁵ Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

⁶ Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

⁸ Department of Behavioral Sciences & Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, FL, United States