Single-turn emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots
Quick summary
arXiv:2604.25415v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: People increasingly turn to general-purpose AI chatbots for advice about emotional and mental health problems, but the ability of these systems to recognize and appropriately triage psychiatric emergencies remains under-characterized. We evaluated psychiatric triage performance in 15 frontier AI chatbots using 112 clinical vignettes spanning four urgency levels, from routine care to immediate emergency assessment. In each trial (1680 total), a chatbot received a single user message conveying all triage-relevant information from one vign
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.25415v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: People increasingly turn to general-purpose AI chatbots for advice about emotional and mental health problems, but the ability of these systems to recognize and appropriately triage psychiatric emergencies remains under-characterized.
- We evaluated psychiatric triage performance in 15 frontier AI chatbots using 112 clinical vignettes spanning four urgency levels, from routine care to immediate emergency assessment.
- In each trial (1680 total), a chatbot received a single user message conveying all triage-relevant information from one vign
Why it matters
“Single-turn emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots” illustrates how changes in the AI ecosystem can affect products, workflows and user expectations together. Its lasting significance depends on measurable adoption, cost and safety outcomes.
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