AI for Mental Health
The AI for Mental Health session explores the role of internet governance in regulating AI for customized mental health treatments and targeted psychological care. It begins with a 10-minute presentation covering the history of AI in mental health and current regulatory considerations. Participants then engage in a quick interactive challenge, testing AI tools like ChatGPT to identify potential risks in mental health advice and adjusting governance rules accordingly. A 5-minute creative segment follows, where participants distinguish between AI-generated and human-created emotion art, sparking discussion on the limitations of AI in capturing the depth of human emotion. The main 40-minute segment is an AI & Mental Health Policy Hackathon, where teams act as policy advisory groups, each addressing a specific challenge, such as AI therapy chatbots or AI-based mental health diagnoses, and develop internet governance rules focused on ethics, privacy, bias, accountability, and transparency. Teams then pitch their policy proposals, which are questioned and voted on by the audience acting as a governing body, fostering critical thinking about responsible AI use in mental health.
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- Mariam Janjgava, YOUthDIG Org Team