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AI conversational agents as population health infrastructure: promise, peril, and the case for public-interest design
Meghna Rajan
Frontiers in Public Health
doi 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1961045
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Original Research
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Evaluation of large language models for ICI-related liver injury with an emerging microbiome focus
Man Sun · Dan Zang · Huan Zhou · Jun Chen
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
doi 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1955356
Systematic Review
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Efficacy of artificial intelligence-driven conversational agents (chatbots) for mental health promotion among university students: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Chen Shao · Xiaochen Chen · Shengnan Qiao · Ang Li · Shipeng Liu · Yanglong Chen
Frontiers in Psychiatry
doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1824378
Hypothesis and Theory
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Synthetic gatekeeping in health chatbots: configured answer systems as the unit of AI evaluation and governance for medical information
Simona Wójcik · Justyna Domienik-Karłowicz · Anna Rulkiewicz
Frontiers in Digital Health
doi 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1976313
Original Research
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Large-scale conversational data auditability via cryptographic commitments and hash-chained audit-ledger verification
Iván Ortiz-Gárces · Pablo Palacios · Washington Loza-Herrera · William Villegas-Ch
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
doi 10.3389/frai.2026.1929127
Original Research
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How well do large language models answer postoperative lumbar fusion questions? A blinded comparative analysis of accuracy, quality, readability, and safety-related content
Ahmet Kürşat Kara · Ozan Işık
Frontiers in Surgery
doi 10.3389/fsurg.2026.1932133
Systematic Review
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AI-enabled and comparator digital interventions for adolescent mental health (2020–2025): early detection, human–AI collaboration, and ethical governance—a PRISMA-ScR scoping review
Noorayisahbe Mohd Yaacob · Mohamed Doheir · Ali Algumaei · Mohammed Nasser Al-Andoli · Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh · Abdelrafe Elzamly · Abd Samad Basari
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
doi 10.3389/frcha.2026.1905782
Original Research
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Safety, accuracy, information quality, readability, and supportive communication of LLM-based chatbots in responses to researcher-developed consumer-oriented prompts on recurrent aphthous stomatitis: an exploratory cross-sectional comparative study
Yulong Wang · Jingjing Li · Zhaole Gong · Yan Zhuang · Wu Dong
Frontiers in Oral Health
doi 10.3389/froh.2026.1968034
Original Research
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A comparative cross-sectional evaluation of generative AI chatbots for patient-oriented bacterial vaginosis health advice: safety, accuracy, guideline concordance, empathy, and readability
Ling Miao · Lina Gu · Zhaole Gong · Zhengfeng Gu · Xiaoli Qian
Frontiers in Reproductive Health
doi 10.3389/frph.2026.1967818
Original Research
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LLM-powered socially assistive robot-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy exercises: an exploratory study with university students
Mina Kian · Mingyu Zong · Katrin Fischer · Abhyuday Singh · Anna-Maria Velentza · Amy O’Connell · Lydia Ignatova · Pau Sang · Shriya Upadhyay · Anika Gupta · Misha A. Faruki · Wallace Browning · Sébastien M. R. Arnold · Meng Chen · Bhaskar Krishnamachari · Maja J. Matarić
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
doi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1802622
Original Research
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Convergence between AI chatbot-calculated microstructure measures and SALT analysis of child language samples
Richy Lewis Hayes · Pui Fong Kan
Frontiers in Language Sciences
doi 10.3389/flang.2026.1929126
Review
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AI-driven marketing tactics and consumer behavior: a bibliometric review and systematic literature review
Swati Ahuja · Amit Dutt · Nancy Sahni · Jaskiran Kaur
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
doi 10.3389/frma.2026.1914129
Systematic Review
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AI applied to Saudi Arabia higher education: systematic literature review—SLR with PRISMA and VOSviewer
Jehad Alqurni
Frontiers in Big Data
doi 10.3389/fdata.2026.1846964
Original Research
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A lightweight Chinese–English translation model integrating compressed BERT attention and phrase discard mechanism
Xin Qi · Hang Bao
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
doi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1795490
Neuroergonomics
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Towards neuroadaptive chatbots: a feasibility study
Diana E. Gherman · Thorsten O. Zander
Frontiers in Neuroergonomics
doi 10.3389/fnrgo.2025.1589734