The Future of Behavior Analysis Will Be Built With AI. Behavior Analysts Should Be the Ones Building It.
The professional home for behavior analysts shaping how AI is governed, documented, and deployed in behavioral healthcare.
Why We Exist
Three things are happening at once.
AI adoption is accelerating
Tools are entering schools, clinics, and homes faster than the literature can evaluate them.
The profession lacks operational standards
No credentialing body has issued formal AI standards for behavior analysts.
Others are moving faster than we are
Technology companies and payers are making decisions that belong to clinicians.
The question isn't whether AI will reshape behavior analysis. It's whether behavior analysts will lead that change—or inherit it.
$152.8M
Improper Medicaid ABA payments estimated by HHS-OIG audits in just three states (IN, WI, CO)
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Open documentation standard in public comment
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Formal AI standards or enforceable guidance issued by the BACB to date
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Requirements in the BAAI audit-defensibility checklist
Sources, as of September 2026: HHS-OIG audit reports A-09-22-02002 (IN, Dec. 2024), A-06-23-01002 (WI, July 2025), A-09-24-02004 (CO, Feb. 2026) — sum of OIG's "at least" estimates ($56.5M + $18.5M + $77.8M).
The Three Pillars
The work, organized.
AI Governance
Creating the standards organizations need: usage policy, oversight, vendor evaluation tools, risk management.
Explore resourcesAudit-Defensible Documentation
Ensuring AI-generated clinical documentation remains compliant, ethical, and defensible. Home of BAAI/S-1.
View the standardBehavioral Intelligence Systems
The future of behavior technology: predictive analytics, machine-learning measurement, adaptive intervention research.
Research translationsFirst releases 2026Public Comment Open
BAAI/S-1 — AI Documentation Standard for Behavior Analysis, v0.9 Public Comment Draft
BAAI/S-1 — AI Documentation Standard for Behavior Analysis. The v0.9 Public Comment Draft is open through Q2 2027. We invite practitioners, researchers, educators, and organizations to read the draft and submit feedback that will shape v1.0, ratified by founding members in 2027.
Apply for Membership
Early members get to ratify the charter, vote on Standards v1.0, and receive the intended charter dues rate, to be locked in at charter ratification.