Regulating AI in Digital Mental Health Forum

Regulating AI in Digital Mental Health Forum

Understanding the Real Progress, Pitfalls, and Global Lessons

The use of AI-enabled technologies for supporting mental health offers great promise, such as by potentially improving treatment outcomes as well as crisis and addiction support, suicide prevention, and building mental resilience and wellbeing. Regulating the safe use of AI in mental health is an urgent priority and calls for many actions including robust clinical and data governance frameworks. When working with AI-enabled technologies in mental health spaces it is crucial that risks and harms are minimized to avoid potentially life-altering and life-threatening outcomes.

In this workshop, we will address key questions related to safety and regulation of AI in mental health. For example, to what extent are AI-enabled technologies embracing clinical governance and what do ‘good practices’ and ‘gold standards’ currently look like in this highly sensitive area? What are the growing efforts to digitize public mental health services using AI-enabled technologies? Are existing regulatory instruments and frameworks swift enough, at least in some capacity, to improve protections for vulnerable citizens? This exploratory workshop also provides an inter-jurisdictional examination of AI regulation and ethical considerations, including perspectives from Australia, Canada, and the EU.

The primary aim of this workshop is to share global lessons on approaches to safety, quality and improved protection of vulnerable citizens when working with AI-enabled technologies specifically in mental health spaces. Furthermore, novel AI trends in rapid development will also be explored during the day for which very little attention and regulatory thought has been given, including the examination of the concept of personal ‘digital twins’, which raises ethical considerations and potentially wide-ranging mental health implications.

Seats are limited for this Forum. 

If you are unable to get funding to attend this session, please write to the organizers at m.palombini@ieee.org.

ONLINE ATTENDEE REGISTRATION WAITLIST - SUBMIT YOUR INTEREST 

We are currently exploring a limited number of online attendee registrations for participants. If you are interested in obtaining an online registration ticket write to Maria Palombini, m.palombini@ieee.org to indicate your interest. Please note there will be a fee for the online registration ticket; tickets will be distributed on a first-come basis.

SUPPORT THIS IMPORTANT FORUM

We are seeking funders to help support the Forum participation and activities. If you are interested in learning more, please write to Maria Palombini, m.palombini@ieee.org. 

This Forum is an activity of the IEEE Healthcare and Life Science Global Practice and the IEEE Ethical Assurance of Data-Driven Technologies for Mental Healthcare Program.