Responsible AI at PsychDraft
AI can support clinical work, but it does not replace professional judgment. PsychDraft is designed to help psychologists organize information and draft clinical language while keeping clinicians in control of every interpretation, diagnosis, recommendation, and final report.
Our approach is informed by the APA Ethics Committee’s guidance for AI in the professional practice of health service psychology.
Last reviewed: July 2026
Informed by professional ethical guidance
Transparency and informed use
PsychDraft is an AI-assisted drafting tool. It does not independently diagnose patients, determine treatment, or make final clinical decisions. Clinicians remain responsible for determining what disclosure and informed-consent practices are appropriate for their patients, setting, jurisdiction, workplace, and evaluation context.
Privacy and security
PsychDraft is designed around limited-retention, privacy-conscious clinical workflows. Clinical information is processed only to provide the requested functionality, and clinical content is not used to train general-purpose AI models.
PsychDraft continues to review its infrastructure, vendor relationships, data flows, logging practices, retention practices, and security controls as the platform evolves.
Accuracy and misinformation
Generative AI can produce errors, omissions, inconsistencies, or unsupported language. The presence of polished clinical language should not be interpreted as evidence that the content is accurate. PsychDraft output should always be reviewed against the source information and the clinician’s own findings before it is incorporated into a clinical record.
PsychDraft is continuing to develop structured evaluation, quality-assurance, and regression-testing procedures across its clinical drafting workflows.
Bias awareness and equity
AI systems can reflect or amplify biases found in data, language, and existing systems of care. PsychDraft does not claim that any AI system is bias-free.
We are developing a structured approach to evaluating PsychDraft across varied demographic, cultural, linguistic, educational, disability, and clinical contexts. When potentially harmful patterns are identified, they will inform product review and improvement.
Human oversight and professional judgment
PsychDraft is designed to augment, not replace, the judgment of licensed clinicians. Users can edit, reject, or replace all generated content and remain responsible for the final clinical record.
PsychDraft should not be used as an autonomous diagnostic system or as a substitute for professional training, assessment, or clinical reasoning. No diagnosis, formulation, recommendation, or report section should be accepted solely because it was generated by PsychDraft.
Responsibility and continuing review
Responsible AI is an ongoing process, not a one-time claim. PsychDraft reviews emerging professional guidance, research, regulatory developments, and user feedback as the technology and standards of practice evolve.
Clinicians are encouraged to use AI within the boundaries of their competence, professional obligations, workplace policies, and applicable laws and regulations.
What PsychDraft does
- Helps clinicians organize information they provide
- Drafts clinical language for clinician review
- Supports interview narratives, behavioral observations, summaries, formulations, recommendations, and report drafting
- Allows clinicians to edit, reject, or replace generated content
- Keeps the clinician responsible for all final interpretations and decisions
What PsychDraft does not do
- Independently diagnose patients
- Replace psychological or neuropsychological assessment
- Make final treatment or referral decisions
- Guarantee that every generated statement is accurate
- Remove the clinician’s ethical, legal, or professional responsibility
- Function as an autonomous clinical decision-maker
Responsible AI is an ongoing practice
PsychDraft will continue updating its practices as professional guidance, regulation, research, user feedback, and the product itself evolve.
Report a concern
PsychDraft users can report potentially inaccurate, biased, unsafe, or privacy-related behavior for review.
Clinical judgment stays with the clinician
PsychDraft was built to reduce the administrative burden of report writing while preserving the expertise, accountability, and judgment that belong to the psychologist.
APA does not endorse, certify, sponsor, or evaluate PsychDraft. References to APA guidance describe the publicly available ethical principles that inform PsychDraft’s approach to responsible AI.