Fireside Chat on the 'Use of Generative AI in Mental Health'
Dr. Derrick Hull of Ash joined a McLean Institute fireside chat on generative AI in mental health with researchers from Dartmouth, UCSF, and Google DeepMind.
McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry
Ash's Derrick Hull on generative AI and mental health (McLean fireside chat)
Summary
At an event hosted by the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, Dr. Derrick Hull — founding Clinical Lead at Ash by Slingshot AI — joined a fireside chat on the use of generative AI in mental health. Panelists included Nicholas Jacobson (Dartmouth), Karthik Sarma (UCSF), and Isaac Galatzer-Levy (Google DeepMind). The discussion covered AI's potential to widen access to care, the challenges of evaluation and safety, study design and control conditions, and why real-world usage data — not just simulated test sets — matters for building safe mental health AI.
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