Alison Darcy
Founder and President of Woebot Health
A research psychologist who founded Woebot Health, an AI chatbot for mental health support.
Biography
Alison Darcy is a research psychologist and technologist, the founder and president of Woebot Health, which provides digital therapeutics and behavioural health products. She studied psychology at University College Dublin, then moved to London to work as a software developer at an investment bank before returning to combine technology with psychology, working with a charity that supported people with eating disorders.
At Stanford she collaborated with Andrew Ng and became interested in whether artificial intelligence could meaningfully help people with mental health conditions. In 2017 she founded Woebot Health, an AI-powered chatbot that helps users monitor their moods and manage their mental health, and which has been found to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression in two weeks. TIME named her to its 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI for combining AI and mental health.
Notable contributions
Founded Woebot Health
Founded Woebot Health in 2017, an AI-powered chatbot that helps people monitor their mood and manage their mental health.
Named to the TIME100 AI list
Named to TIME's 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI for combining AI and mental health.