I’m A Psychologist. What Teens Told Me About How They Are Using AI Chatbots Should Terrify You.

Dr. Riana Elyse Anderson is a licensed clinical and community psychologist, associate professor at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, and affiliate with Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. She is a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project in Partnership with National Black Child Development Institute.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost in June 2026.