Specialized or General-Purpose—The Wrong Question for Mental Health AI Safety

This Viewpoint discusses developing a taxonomy of AI mental health harm and understanding how to assess and respond to those harms to advance AI safety.

Corresponding Author: John Torous, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (jtorous@bidmc.harvard.edu).

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