Woebot Health
Woebot Health is a San Francisco-based digital health company that develops chat-based AI tools for mental health support, including its Woebot app. The app delivers techniques grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy and related approaches, and is made available to consumers through partners such as health plans, health systems, and employers.www.woebothealth.com
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Oct 12, 2026
Bridget ToddGUEST
Uh, there are chatbots that are sort of single use.
Bridget ToddGUEST
Like, we focus, we, we have a sec- a small section in the audiobook, audiobook about, um, chatbots that are designed specifically for therapy, so bots like Wysa or Woebot that are, that are designed specifically for one specific type of therapy, uh, CBT.
Bridget ToddGUEST
Um- I do think that for kind of general purpose chatbots, I think the future of general purpose chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT is exactly what you just described, right? A bot that you will just trust with everything, every aspect of your life, whether it's your emotional advice or helping you parent your kids.
Bridget ToddGUEST
Remember Sam Altman said, "I, I can't even imagine parenting my kid without ChatGPT.
Bridget ToddGUEST
I spoke to researchers who told me that when somebody is having a time of difficulty in their life, sometimes AI is something that they turn to.
Bridget ToddGUEST
When I was doing the chapter on AI and therapy, I was really surprised to learn that for specific therapy AI apps like Woebot, there is some research that suggests it's promising for a particular type of therapy, CBT therapy, right? And so I was so ready to be like, "There are no benefits here," but I can't lie about what the research says.
Bridget ToddGUEST
If the research said every time you open up an AI bot you're putting yourself at great risk for harm, nobody would've been more thrilled to report that than me.
Bridget ToddGUEST
But sometimes I almost feel like people want you to lie to them about the truth when it comes to some of the use case for AI that might have benefit.
Shiri SharvitGUEST
If the, uh, user says this, then the, uh, chatbot would say that, and so on.
Shiri SharvitGUEST
Uh, for instance, I consulted with, uh, Woebot for a while at the earlier, uh, stages when I still lived in California.
Shiri SharvitGUEST
And, uh-
Ernest WaydeHOST
Yeah, with the predetermined responses to specific-
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Which makes it worth asking, why nobody has solved it? The most instructive answer is a company that actually tried.
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Woebot was a mental health chatbot built on cognitive behavioral therapy with real clinical trials behind it and a breakthrough device designation from the FDA.
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It was, by a wide margin, the most rigorously evidenced conversational agent in the entire mental health category.
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On the 30th of June, 2025, it shut its consumer app down.