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Apply Now: $5 Million to Test If AI Chatbots Fail Users in Crisis

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By Wayan Vota
| ICTworks
The WHO Mental Health Atlas 2024 counts a median of 1.1 to 2.4 specialized mental health workers per 100,000 people in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. High-income countries report 67.2, and spend US$65.89 per person against under a dollar. People in that gap type their problems into chatbots. In a June 2025 study of roughly 4.5 million Claude.ai conversations, Miles McCain and thirteen co-authors at Anthropic found 2.9% were emotional or personal exchanges.
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Our Current Procurement Systems Buy Trucks, Not AI Software

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By Wayan Vota
| ICTworks
Humanitarian procurement is good at buying things that stay bought. A water tank is the same water tank the day after you sign for it. An algorithmic system is not, and that one difference breaks the current purchasing process. The reflexive answer to AI risk in aid work has been to write more guidance. We have ethical AI frameworks, codes of conduct, assurance toolkits, and decision trees. Maybe too many responsible AI guidelines to follow as it is.
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What Does AI Do With $1 Billion for Digital Health? All 3 Refused.

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By Wayan Vota
| ICTworks
Billions in new philanthropic AI wealth are heading toward international development. I wanted to know what the frontier AI models had to say about digital health absorbing that money. I wrote a test and handed the identical prompt to OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini: you are the chief investment officer of a new foundation, a donor has given you $1 billion for digital health in low- and middle-income countries, and they want it deployed fast.
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