Challenge

AI-Powered Suicide Prevention Chatbot

Develop a chatbot capable of detecting and responding to suicidal ideation with empathy and appropriate interventions. The chatbot must adhere to ethical guidelines and prioritize user safety, offering resources and support. The system should be robust enough to handle a wide range of user inputs and emotional states, while avoiding the pitfalls demonstrated in the OpenAI lawsuit. Consider incorporating techniques to guide users towards professional help when necessary.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Develop a chatbot capable of detecting and responding to suicidal ideation with empathy and appropriate interventions. The chatbot must adhere to ethical guidelines and prioritize user safety, offering resources and support. The system should be robust enough to handle a wide range of user inputs and emotional states, while avoiding the pitfalls demonstrated in the OpenAI lawsuit. Consider incorporating techniques to guide users towards professional help when necessary.

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Learning goals

What you should walk away with

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How this agent runs

The chatbot will be evaluated based on its ability to identify suicidal ideation, provide appropriate responses, and direct users to helpful resources. Evaluation will include both automated metrics and human evaluation.

Preview configuration

Challenge input

User text input

Agent execution

The configured agent processes the input under the challenge policy.

Evaluated output

Boolean (True if suicidal ideation is detected, False otherwise)

Checks for
  • Percentage of correctly identified suicidal statements
Proof of success
  • F1 Score target: 0.9
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
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Evaluation contract

  • The evaluation module defines the checks.

Recipe state

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$npx -y @versalist/cli start ai-powered-suicide-prevention-chatbot

[ok] Wrote CHALLENGE.md

[ok] Wrote .versalist.json

[ok] Wrote eval/examples.json

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