Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol 57(4), Aug 2026, 243-252; doi:10.1037/pro0000687
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems continue to support the delivery of many psychological services, health service psychologists must ensure that they are used in an ethical manner. However, our extant literature has yet to fully articulate how psychologists might actually accomplish this goal. The purpose of this article was to offer psychologists an inventory that they might use to focus and put into practice the newly in-revision American Psychological Association [APA] (2024b) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct with respect to the ethical application of AI. We developed this inventory in consultation with the emerging ethical recommendations regarding the use of AI in mental health, as well as those made within the field of AI science regarding how to ethically apply their technological developments. The first section of this article details each of the relevant codes governing the practice of psychology and what they mean for practitioners potentially employing AI in their practices. The second section of the article introduces the areas covered by the proposed inventory (see also Supplemental Materials). Finally, we discuss the implications that the use of AI has for the field of health service psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)