Rural America’s Mental Health Crisis Can’t Be Solved by Robots
- Posted on February 10, 2026
- By The New Republic
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Rural America’s Mental Health Crisis Can’t Be Solved by Robots

At an event for the Trump administration’s new “Action for Progress” initiative last week, Dr. Mehmet Oz insisted that “the best way to help some of these communities is going to be AI-based avatars.”