FRED (Family Resilience with Empathy and Dialogue) is an AI-based parent training conversational agent, designed to provide real-time personalized guidance for parents of children experiencing difficult emotions and challenging behaviors. The conversational agent aims to support parents across different stages of help-seeking, addressing an unmet need for families on waitlists.

The session will be led by an interdisciplinary group of data scientists, clinicians and researchers in psychiatry, and engineers from industry. The audience will engage in a practical stress-testing activity with FRED, exploring potential vulnerabilities that are absent from static LLM benchmarks.

The session includes talks and discussions on the challenges and broader ethical and legal implications of conversational AI in mental health and how a human-centered approach can increase value-alignment in the field.

Programme

The session will be led by an interdisciplinary group of data scientists, clinicians and researchers in psychiatry, and engineers from the industry sector developing AI technologies.

The tentative session schedule is:

• Introduction and overview of the workshop themes and objectives (5 mins)
• Case presentation of an ongoing digital health project (FRED) focusing on relevance, societal impact, and implementation challenges (10 mins)
• Technical considerations and challenges in the case (10 minutes)
• Interactive workshop activity: participant engagement (40 mins)
• Plenary discussion (20mins)
• Concluding remarks (5 mins)

Speakers’ list

• Simge Genc, PhD Fellow, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Copenhagen University Hospital & Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science: Introduction to Fred
  
  
• Eva Paraschou, PhD Candidate, DTU: Value Alignment in Mental Health Conversational AI Agents
  
  
• Paula Petcu, CEO, Interhuman AI: Technical Considerations and Challenges of Fred

Level

Introductory: Suitable for beginners with little to no prior knowledge of the subject.

Organisers

• Nicole Lønfeldt, (Lead organizer) Associate Professor (nicole.nadine.loenfeldt@regionh.dk), Copenhagen University Hospital
  
  
• Line Clemmensen, Professor (lkhc@math.ku.dk), Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
  
  
• Paula Petcu, Founder and CEO of Interhuman AI (paula@interhuman.ai)
  
  
• Eva Paraschou, MCSA-DN Doctoral Candidate in Alignment for LLMs and AI in Mental Health (evpa@dtu.dk), DTU COMPUTE
  
  
• Cecilie Mora-Jensen, Postdoctoral Researcher (anna-rosa.cecilie.mora-jensen@regionh.dk), PhD, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Copenhagen University Hospital
  
  
• Camilla Funch Uhre, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Senior Researcher (camilla.funch.uhre.01@regionh.dk), PhD, Center for Clinical Neurospsychology, Children and Adolescents, Rigshospitalet
  
  
• Simge Genç, PhD Fellow (simge.genc@regionh.dk), SODAS, UCPH
  
  
• Sneha Das, Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) (sned@dtu.dk), DTU COMPUTE
  
  
• Ahcène Boubekki, Postdoc, (ahcene.boubekki@math.ku.dk), Dept. of Math. Sciences, UCPH