Researchers led by Computer Science Prof. Iryna Gurevych at TU Darmstadt and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi are addressing a key question: How can AI-based tools in the mental health domain be designed to reliably protect patient privacy? In a new study published in Nature Computational Science, they present a roadmap for developing support systems that improve diagnosis and therapy while safeguarding sensitive information. The researchers emphasize that privacy is a key prerequisite for using AI in mental health care.

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Mandal, A., Chakraborty, T. & Gurevych, I. Towards privacy-aware mental health AI models. Nat Comput Sci 5, 863–874 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-025-00875-w