Single-turn emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots
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 vignette and recommended a timeframe for care. The primary outcome was emergency under-triage; secondary outcomes included triage accuracy and the direction of...
| Authors | Veith Weilnhammer, Lennart Luettgau, Christopher Summerfield et al. |
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| Primary category | q-bio.NC |
| Published | 28 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 30 September 2026 |
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