Lessons from Building a Safe AI Mental Health Coach

A follow-up to How to Build an AI Emotional Regulation Coach for Autism . A few months ago, I deliberately asked my AI coaching agent whether it would make any difference to our conversation if I said I was going to end my life that day. It asked me if I was safe. Which sounds like the right response. But isn&rsquo;t always. For people with trauma histories or autistic nervous systems, an abrupt…