Article Excerpt: The world’s first college-specific wellness artificial intelligence, named Evergreen.AI, is being built at Dartmouth. The $5 million project will feature personalized wellness check-ins, organizational tools and offer Dartmouth-specific social advice.
Evergreen is being promoted as a “by-students, for-students” platform. It is the product of almost two years of design and more than 100 undergraduate employees, according to Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry professor Lisa Marsch, a faculty advisor on the project.
“The goal is to give someone a resource that really understands students and knows the life of this community [and] language of Dartmouth, so that it feels relevant to student life and can help students meet their goals,” Marsch said.
A “closed beta” — during which project managers will make Evergreen available to a select group of test users — planned for early 2026 will use pre-structured dialogues rather than large language model prompting, according to project manager Jennifer Li ’27. Full large language model integration is expected by 2028. Pre-structured dialogues allow only a pre-scripted set of user prompts, rather than the dynamic prompting available to users of generative AI; the two-year lag before the integration of LLMs allows time for model development and safety testing.
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