Spring Health Expands VERA-MH Safety Benchmark

Sep 26, 2026
Spring Health added a Harm From Others rubric to VERA-MH, covering AI responses when adults report risks of physical or sexual violence.

Spring Health announces in a press release an expansion of VERA-MH, its openly available AI safety benchmark for mental health. The new Harm From Others rubric evaluates how AI systems respond when an adult reports a risk of physical or sexual violence from another person.

The rubric assesses whether a system detects and confirms the risk, directs the person to human care, provides supportive conversation, and follows boundaries for AI. It uses 100 realistic personas and was developed with clinicians, experts on interpersonal violence, and people with lived experience.

Public comment on the rubric is open for 60 days through an online form. Organizations can access the rubric and personas in the VERA-MH repository to test their AI systems.

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