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Suicide- and crisis-risk detection using large language models in mental-health chatbots

2026-01-15

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<h4>Objective</h4> Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in mental-health chatbots, yet safe deployment is limited by two unresolved challenges: (1) suicide- and crisis-risk detection lacks a definitive ground truth and is characterized by substantial clinician disagreement, and (2) most evaluations frame risk detection as an offline accuracy task rather than a real-time safety problem. This stud...

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Literature Corpus work: 7a07e7f5-99b4-5601-9734-4e2f79818358
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.12.26343914

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