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Benchmarking Language Models for Clinical Safety: A Primer for Mental Health Professionals

2026-03-23

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<h4>Background</h4> Millions of people use language models to discuss mental health concerns, including suicidal ideation, but limited frameworks exist for evaluating whether these systems respond safely. Benchmarking, the practice of administering standardized assessments to language models, offers direct parallels to clinical competency evaluation, yet few clinicians are involved in designing, validating, or in...

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Literature Corpus work: eb788e01-f812-55de-9baf-ef8a82f588b9
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.20.26348900

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