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Insights on emotional safety in AI, research updates, and analysis of how conversational AI affects people in vulnerable moments.

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The Emotional Safety Gap: What We Found When We Tested How AI Responds to Vulnerability

54.7% of AI responses made emotional situations worse at first contact. 43% failed to correct. Here's what that means for how we build and deploy conversational AI.

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Recognition ≠ Safety: Why Emotional Intelligence Benchmarks Miss the Point

Most AI evaluation focuses on whether systems can identify emotions. But recognition without safe response is just surveillance with a friendly face.

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Introducing Ikwe.ai: Emotional Safety Infrastructure for AI

We built the evaluation framework we wished existed. Now we're making it available to teams who want to know what their AI actually does to people.

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