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AI Informed Consent Toolkit
What Is the AI Informed Consent Toolkit?
The AI Informed Consent Toolkit is a five-document framework that helps clinicians review an AI tool before use, describe how it operates in their specific practice, and prepare a customized patient consent packet. It covers AI use in psychotherapy and related practice operations. It does not address AI used in psychological assessment or evaluation, which requires separate guidance.
The toolkit follows a simple three-step workflow:
- Review the AI tool — evaluate the company, its data practices, safeguards, and risks using the AI Practice Review and Use Setup Form.
- Describe how your practice will use it — define the actual, specific use case, not a generic category.
- Assemble the patient packet — select only the consent documents that apply, based on how the tool is actually used.
Download the AI Informed Consent Toolkit
Built for doctoral psychologists, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, group practice leaders, and behavioral health administrators — particularly those evaluating AI documentation tools, ambient listening or transcription tools, clinical workflow support, or patient-facing AI communication tools.
Why AI Informed Consent Can't Be a Generic Disclosure
A blanket “we may use AI” statement buried in an intake packet doesn’t meet the standard patients — or licensing boards — increasingly expect. Patients reasonably want to know what the AI tool actually does, what information it touches, who else might access it, whether the use is optional, and how the clinician stays responsible for their care.
This toolkit doesn’t just supply consent language; it structures the thinking behind it, so disclosure is tied to the real tool, the real use case, and the real risks in your practice, not a one-size-fits-all clause.
A completed form doesn’t make an AI use appropriate; clinicians retain full responsibility for competence, confidentiality, security, and the underlying decision to use AI at all.
Informed Consent Sample Forms