Kansas addiction-counseling advisory committee opens discussion on regulating artificial intelligence in practice

Jill Flesing, chair of the Addiction Counselor Advisory Committee of the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board, opened an advisory-committee discussion on regulation of artificial intelligence in behavioral-health practice during an otherwise routine remote meeting.

David Fye, executive director of the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board, framed the packet of materials the board provided to advisory committees: a state executive-branch generative-AI policy from the Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), guidance from the American Association of State Counseling Boards, and a Kansas Health Institute template for AI policies in public-health organizations. Fye said the OITS document includes a provision that “responses generated from generative AI shall not be used verbatim, be assumed to be truthful, . . . be used to issue official statements, [or] be solely relied…