Responsible AI for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing workshops at Stanford and Kids Help Phone (Canada)

It was a wonderful learning experience attending two multistakeholder workshops on “Responsible AI for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing” at Stanford and Kids Help Phone (Canada) organized by Harkness Fellow, Caroline Figueroa.

Both events invited stakeholders across youth advocacy, academia, policy, and industry to reflect on emerging risks and opportunities in this rapidly developing space. What was evident to me during both workshops, despite many differences in opinion on how youth should be interacting with genAI tools, was a persistent duty towards care and equity.

What I find particularly promising is that conversations in this space are now moving towards defining what such duty means in practice, in all its complex forms and mech anisms, instead of only its necessity. This includes, naturally, the critical role youth themselves have in how tools should serve rather than hinder their wellbeing needs.

Stay tuned for our findings write-up from both events!

Update March 2026: here is one great follow-up report by the organizer, Caroline! https://hopelab.org/stories/responsible-ai-for-youth-mental-health

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