Spring Health Opens VERA-MH Harm-From-Others Safety Rubric for Public Comment

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    "excerpt": "The expansion adds a harm-from-others safety area to VERA-MH, the first open-source AI safety benchmark for mental health, and invites public feedback ahead of Domestic Violence Awareness Month NEW YORK , Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring Health , a global mental health company built on one AI-native platform, today expanded VERA-MH, the first open-source AI safety benchmark for mental health, into a second clinical safety area: harm from others . As more people turn to AI for emotional support 1 , Spring Health is helping build the standards by which mental health AI should be measured. The VERA-MH Harm-From-Others rubric evaluates how AI systems respond when an adult describes being at risk of physical or sexual violence from another person. Developed with clinicians, subject-matter experts in interpersonal violence, and people with lived experience, it is scored across five areas: detecting the risk, confirming it, guiding the person to human care, supportive conversation, and following AI boundaries. Drawing on 100 realistic personas, it is the first open-source benchmark of its kind. \"There are many moments when someone's safety depends on how an AI responds, and harm from others is one of the most urgent and least addressed,\" said Dr. Mill Brown, Chief Medical Officer at Spring Health. \"In clinical care, we don't wait for a crisis to know what a safe response looks...",
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