{
  "id": 4396,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13318v2",
  "title": "VERA-MH: Validation of Ethical and Responsible AI in Mental Health",
  "summary": "Chatbot usage has increased, including in fields for which they were never developed for--notably mental health support. To that end, we introduce Validations of Ethical and Responsible AI in Mental Health (VERA-MH), a novel clinically-validated evaluation for safety of chatbots in the context of mental health support. The first iteration of VERA-MH focuses on Suicidal Ideation (SI) risks, by assessing how well chatbots can responds to users that might be in crisis. VERA-MH is comprised of three",
  "authors": "Luca Belli, Kate H. Bentley, Josh Gieringer, Emily Van Ark, Nilu Zhao, Pradip Thachile et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-13T10:31:48.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:59.235Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4396",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13318v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}