KevinMD August 16, 2026
Every voice quoted in The Times’ recent coverage of Senate Bill 903 (SB 903), “As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits,” belongs to an institution: a legislator, a professional association, a labor union, a tech-industry lobbyist, a bioethicist. Missing from that debate is the voice of the people already living with the consequences: families managing serious mental illness, for whom this isn’t a policy abstraction but a daily, sometimes life-or-death question.
I’m one of them. I’ve spent years researching and writing about the technology reaching families navigating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and related conditions, work that grew directly out of my own experience as a caregiver with no roadmap. When I read about SB 903,…
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