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New framework TherapyGym enhances safety and fidelity of therapy chatbots

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Researchers have developed TherapyGym, a new framework designed to evaluate and enhance the clinical fidelity and safety of therapy chatbots. The system measures adherence to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques using the Cognitive Therapy Rating Scale (CTRS) and assesses therapy-specific risks through a multi-label safety annotation scheme. TherapyGym also functions as a training harness, utilizing patient simulations and RL to improve chatbot performance, leading to significant gains in both clinical fidelity and safety ratings. AI

IMPACT Enables scalable development of more faithful and safer therapy chatbots for mental health support.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new framework and evaluation method for AI chatbots. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New framework TherapyGym enhances safety and fidelity of therapy chatbots

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Fangrui Huang, Souhad Chbeir, Arpandeep Khatua, Sheng Wang, Sijun Tan, Kenan Ye, Lily Bailey, Merryn Daniel, Ryan Louie, Sanmi Koyejo, Ehsan Adeli ·

    TherapyGym: Evaluating and Aligning Clinical Fidelity and Safety in Therapy Chatbots

    arXiv:2603.18008v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental-health support; yet prevailing evaluation methods--fluency metrics, preference tests, and generic dialogue benchmarks--fail to capture the clinically critical d…

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