NaCTeM's work on building trustworthy AI for mental health mentioned in Forbes magazine

2026-01-12

NaCTeM's work on using AI for mental health has been mentioned an article entitled Building Open-Source AI Models That Emphasize Generating Mental Health Advice in the American business magazine Forbes. The article, authored by Lance B. Eliot, a world-renowned AI scientist, examines the development of open-source large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, especially models that excel at providing mental health guidance.

Part of the article reports on a talk given by Prof. Sophia Ananiadou, director of NaCTeM, at Stanford University, entitled From Emotions to Explanations: Building Trustworthy AI for Mental Health. The talk traced the evolution of emotion-aware AI for mental health, ranging from early sentiment models to richer systems capable of capturing mood and psychological nuances. A video of the talk is available here.

During the talk, Prof. Ananiadou mentioned research carried out by members of the NaCTeM team described in the paper MentaLLaMA: Interpretable Mental Health Analysis on Social Media with Large Language Models by Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Ziyan Kuang, Qianqian Xie, Jimin Huang and Sophia Ananiadou, which was presented at the ACM Web Conference 2024.