Mental Health Writer, Actor – Part-Time

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Part-time mental health writers or actors needed for AI safety initiatives. Role involves creating and performing clinical scenarios with AI agents in mental health contexts.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and role-play chat experiences with AI agents across diverse clinical and emotional scenarios
  • Perform or simulate characters across ages, backgrounds, severity levels, and emotional states (spoken or written)
  • Write dialogue scripts, scenario outlines, or narrative prompts for testing edge cases in mental-health contexts
  • Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns
  • Translate clinical expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics
  • Provide expert clinical feedback on internal mental-health policy development
  • Collaborate with engineering and research teams to define evaluation metrics for tone, psychological validity, and appropriateness
  • Identify and document failure cases, risk signals, and edge behaviors
  • Contribute to scenario modeling, red teaming, and rapid experimentation cycles
  • Ensure all work adheres to strict confidentiality agreements and NDAs
  • Implement quality-assurance protocols for conversation and behavioral analysis
  • Participate in review sessions with engineers, researchers, and clinical consultants

Requirements:

  • Knowledge of crisis intervention, risk assessment, and safety planning
  • Demonstrated experience in creative writing, theatre, improv, acting, voice acting, or character-driven role-play
  • Interest in NLP, AI, ML, safety evaluation, or speech-signal processing
  • Strong understanding of mental-health ethics, boundaries, and responsible handling of sensitive data
  • Ability to telecommute and use Slack, LLM tools (trainable), and Microsoft 365
  • Comfort with ambiguity, iteration, and emerging technology
  • Ability to integrate constructive feedback
  • Clinical experience with severe pathology, crisis populations, individuals experiencing mental-health crises, and vulnerable youth or young adults
  • In-progress or completed clinical degree or independent licensure (e.g., Clinical Psychology, Counseling, Social Work, Psychiatry, or related field)
  • Participation or familiarity with Discord, Reddit, gaming communities, or narrative role-play environments
  • Background in trust & safety, content moderation, or policy development
  • Experience with AI/ML in clinical or healthcare settings
  • Experience with data classification, annotation, or qualitative analysis projects

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