Child Psychiatry Expert - AI Safety

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Position: Child & Adolescent Mental Health Clinical Advisor (AI Safety Benchmark Project)

Type: Contract Compensation: $80–$150/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10–15 hours/week Role Responsibilities

• Author fictionalized adolescent mental health case scenarios based on real-world clinical expertise.
• Review scenarios for clinical realism, developmental appropriateness, and ethical considerations.
• Help develop and refine clinician-informed evaluation rubrics for AI chatbot responses.
• Review a subset of AI-generated conversations and provide expert judgment to calibrate automated evaluation systems.
• Advise on best practices for assessing AI behavior across key mental health domains, including suicide & self-harm, medical & therapeutic impersonation, and parasocial attachment & anthropomorphism.

Qualifications Must-Have

• MD, DO, PhD, PsyD, or equivalent qualification in Psychiatry, Psychology, or a related mental health field.
• Clinical or research experience focused on children and adolescents.
• Expertise in suicide prevention, self-harm assessment, child & adolescent psychiatry, clinical child psychology, digital mental health, or evidence-based therapies such as DBT or CBT.
• Strong written communication skills and ability to provide structured clinical feedback.
• Comfortable reviewing fictional clinical scenarios and evaluating AI-generated conversations.

Preferred

• Experience conducting suicide risk assessments or crisis intervention.
• Academic or published research in adolescent mental health, suicide prevention, or digital therapeutics.
• Experience developing clinical guidelines, assessment frameworks, or educational materials.
• Prior work involving AI, digital health technologies, or mental health product evaluation.
• Experience supervising trainees or participating in multidisciplinary clinical teams.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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