AI Now Grades Therapists

🔥 What happened Researchers released Therapy-FIS, the first public dataset for automated assessment of therapists' interpersonal skills. It contains facial, acoustic, and textual signals from 890 therapist videos responding to 8 patient clips. 💡 Why it matters FIS ratings previously required human observers—costly and unscalable. The baseline model DyadicFIS scores only 0.28–0.33 macro CCC, revealing how hard this task is. Automated assessment could transform therapist training and certification at scale. ⚡ Our take A bold first step, but those low CCC scores scream that AI is nowhere near reliably measuring human empathy. Anyone deploying automated therapist ratings today is gambling on immature tech.