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OpenAI publishes MentalHealthBench, built with 80 mental health experts in 22 countries

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Source: OpenAI: Introducing MentalHealthBench

OpenAI released MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark for how AI systems respond in realistic mental health conversations, co-created with more than 80 licensed mental health experts from 22 countries. It scores behaviours such as safety, seeking context, preserving user agency and giving actionable guidance, beyond the emergency scenarios most earlier tests covered.

Why it matters

Developers and regulators get an open, clinician-built test for chatbot answers across everyday mental health conversations, beyond crisis scenarios.

When
23 Sep 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0131
Who
OpenAI

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from OpenAI. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0131: “OpenAI publishes MentalHealthBench, built with 80 mental health experts in 22 countries.” wheresthe.ai, 23 Sep 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/openai-mentalhealthbench-2026-09/ (source: OpenAI: Introducing MentalHealthBench).

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