Mila Prioritizes Mental-Health Safeguards For Chatbots

Mila, Québec's AI research institute, says it is prioritizing mental-health safeguards for chatbots at its AI Policy Conference in Montréal this week, citing rising cases of chatbot-driven psychosis and suicides. The Mila AI Safety Studio is developing independent guardrails, reliability tests, and risk-assessment tools to limit delusion-validating outputs; researchers note about 800 million weekly users and warn engagement incentives and lack of conversational data complicate solutions.
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