MindShift awarded funding by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
A three-year research project hosted by the University of Gothenburg, scheduled for 2027–2029.
MindShift, Meaning Change in Mental Health Terminology and Its Impact on Human–AI Interaction, has been awarded funding by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) under project reference P26-0179.
The project investigates how psychiatric terminology acquires additional meanings in everyday discourse, how people differ in their interpretation of these usages, and whether large language models can distinguish clinical and colloquial meanings while accurately representing affective significance.
The research will develop a multilingual, human-annotated benchmark covering English, Swedish and Italian; examine differences in human interpretation; evaluate computational language models against human judgments; and investigate safety-oriented guardrails for mental-health-adjacent interactions.
The project is led by Pierluigi Cassotti at the University of Gothenburg, in collaboration with Naomi Baes (University of Tübingen), Nick Haslam (University of Melbourne), Marco Antonio Stranisci (IT University of Copenhagen), and Oscar Kjell (Lund University / Vanderbilt University).
The research project is scheduled to run from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2029 with a total grant of SEK 5,726,371.