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AI Chatbot Suicide-Safety Routing: Designing Escalation Paths
Consumer AI chatbots will encounter suicidal users — design your detection and escalation flow with crisis professionals, not after a tragedy.
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- 1The premise
- 2crisis routing
- 3988 escalation
- 4false negative
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Section 1
The premise
AI can route detected crisis messages to human or hotline resources, but the detection threshold and handoff design must be set by clinicians.
What AI does well here
- Generate test prompts spanning explicit, implicit, and ambiguous crisis signals.
- Draft localized crisis-resource handoff messages by region.
What AI cannot do
- Decide the right sensitivity threshold for your user base.
- Replace a clinical safety review of your detection system.
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