Safety Project | Emotional Distress Clinical Specialist (Role-Play & Evaluation)

About the project

We are opening a freelance opportunity for the Safety Project — Emotional Distress (Clinical track), a project focused on evaluating how AI systems respond in sensitive conversations involving emotional distress, suicidal ideation, and depression. The goal of this project is to assess whether the AI can respond with empathy, responsibility, and appropriate safety awareness in high-risk emotional scenarios.

In this track, selected contributors will perform two complementary activities:

• Role-play — participate in structured multi-turn conversations with an AI system, acting according to a predefined persona and scenario representative of real clinical presentations.
• Evaluation — review AI responses against clinical criteria, assessing risk recognition, appropriateness of safety messaging, empathy, accuracy of psychoeducation, and adherence to evidence-based crisis-response practices.

What you'll do

• Conduct role-play sessions as a clinically informed persona across multi-turn conversations
• Evaluate AI responses for safety, empathy, clinical appropriateness, and risk handling
• Provide structured written feedback grounded in clinical reasoning
• Flag responses that miss risk signals, give unsafe guidance, or fall short of best-practice crisis communication

Who can apply

Licensed or formally trained professionals in psychiatry, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, psychiatric nursing, or related mental health fields — including those working in crisis centers, helplines, or other mental health support environments. Experience in suicide prevention, crisis intervention, or risk assessment is highly valued.

Compensation

US$40 per approved task. Each task takes approximately 1 hour to complete.