We are in an era of rapid technological development. AI technology is penetrating into various fields at an unprecedented speed. More and more public welfare projects are using AI technology to provide efficient and fast help to more people in need. The National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) uses AI to analyze massive medical data, accurately locate patients with rare diseases, and help charitable organizations provide medical assistance. In order to improve rescue efficiency and reduce the threat of disasters to people’s lives and property, the Norwegian People’s Aid has introduced a disaster prediction and response system built with AI technology, which has played a key role in humanitarian crisis prevention and natural disaster warning and response. The “Huangdantong” applet for AI image recognition of neonatal jaundice, initiated and promoted by China’s Tencent Charity Foundation, can quickly determine the condition of newborns and guide relief methods, and guide medical treatment in an orderly manner, greatly reducing parents’ anxiety and relieving the pressure on hospitals to receive patients. The application of AI technology has brought new opportunities and changes to public welfare, and provided a more systematic, efficient and accurate way to solve social and livelihood issues.

With the ever-accelerating pace of life, mental health issues are receiving more and more attention from people. Fortunately, the rapid development of AI technology has brought new hope for mental health treatment and management. Tianqiao Brain Science Institute has actively explored this field, and its remarkable achievements have shown us the infinite possibilities of deep integration of AI and mental health. The Frontier Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health of Tianqiao Brain Science Institute is working with Shanghai Mental Health Center to carry out a project called “Lingxi”. Based on the notion that mental illness is “the only disease that can be diagnosed and treated by dialogue”, the project builds a real, high-quality dialogue database between depression and anxiety patients and doctors for AI large language model training. At present, the project has passed ethical approval, collected more than 5,000 dialogues, with an effective duration of more than 1,000 hours, and the data will continue to expand. In the past, the diagnosis process of mental illness was cumbersome and subjective. Now, with the help of AI technology, doctors can quickly make a preliminary diagnosis through dialogue, reduce subjective interference, improve work efficiency, and improve fairness and accuracy. This not only buys precious time for patients suffering from the disease, but also provides doctors with a powerful auxiliary diagnostic tool to provide treatment and medical services to more patients.

NourishMind, a student project incubated by the Next Generation Philanthropy Leadership Program, also set its sights on AI and mental health. Based on the close connection between diet and body and mind, the team provides users with customized healthy diet plans and products to create a communication platform for exploring physical and mental health, allowing users to assist AI in forming plans more correctly and efficiently through anthropomorphic communication with the platform, thereby achieving the purpose of managing users’ physical and mental health. In order to better polish this project, the Next Generation Philanthropy Leadership Program invited Mr Hou Tao, R&D Director of 51World (Beijing May 1st Vision Digital Twin Technology Co., Ltd.), to conduct an in-depth discussion with project team members through an online seminar, providing practical and reasonable guidance and suggestions.