Single-turn emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots

Name: Single-turn emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots
Uploaded: 2026-10-03T08:55:29.983004+00:00
Duration: 261 s
Description: This study tested 15 frontier AI chatbots on single-turn psychiatric triage using 112 clinical vignettes. While models accurately identify high-acuity emergencies, they consistently over-triage low and intermediate risk cases. This suggests a pattern where safety training leads to excessive caution, potentially driven by commercial pressures to minimize perceived risk.

This study tested 15 frontier AI chatbots on single-turn psychiatric triage using 112 clinical vignettes. While models accurately identify high-acuity emergencies, they consistently over-triage low and intermediate risk cases. This suggests a pattern where safety training leads to excessive caution, potentially driven by commercial pressures to minimize perceived risk.

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