Bio

Declan Grabb, MD, is a forensic psychiatry fellow at Stanford and the first AI Fellow in Stanford's Lab for Mental Health Innovation. He has published widely on AI in user safety and mental healthcare, with first-author publications in both computer science conferences and medical journals. Recently, he collaborated with Common Sense Media to create a family guide on AI Companions, a project featured by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Mashable. His work has earned significant recognition, including the American Psychiatric Association’s inaugural Innovation in Psychiatry Award for fine-tuning language models to assist in mental health assessments, and Stanford’s Trailblazing Trainee Award for research on biases in AI models used for psychiatric diagnosis. His primary focus is on understanding the impact of technology on mental health—its benefits as well as its risks.

Honors & Awards

  • O'Leary Award for Innovation in Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association (2023)
  • Trailblazing Trainee Award, Stanford University (2024)
  • Outstanding Author Award, Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence (2024)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • A.I. Fellow, Stanford's Lab for Mental Health Innovation (2023 - Present)
  • Member, Center for AI Safety, Stanford University (2024 - Present)
  • Committee Member, Committee on Innovation, American Psychiatric Association (2024 - Present)

All Publications

  • Risks from Language Models for Automated Mental Healthcare: Ethics and Structure for Implementation Conference on Language Modeling Grabb, D., Lamparth, M., Vasan, N. 2024
  • Depictions of Queer Mental Health by Grok-2 NeurIPS: Queer in AI Workshop Grabb, D. 2024
  • pSAE-chiatry: Utilizing Sparse Autoencoders to Uncover Mental-Health-Related Features in Language Models NeurIPS: Behavioral ML Workshop Grabb, D. 2024
  • Emerging Forensic Implications of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution. The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Grabb, D. J., Angelotta, C. 2023; 51 (4): 475-479

    View details for DOI 10.29158/JAAPL.230080-23

    View details for PubMedID 38065619

  • ChatGPT in Medical Education: a Paradigm Shift or a Dangerous Tool? Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry Grabb, D. 2023; 47 (4): 439-440

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s40596-023-01791-9

    View details for PubMedID 37160840

  • Leaning into the digital age: the role of TikTok and other technologies in providing mental health information. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) Grabb, D. 2023; 382: 1754

    View details for DOI 10.1136/bmj.p1754

    View details for PubMedID 37524394

  • The impact of prompt engineering in large language model performance: a psychiatric example Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence Grabb, D. 2023