What is the AIR-SPJ Project?
The AIR-SPJ (AI Interaction Risk — Structured Professional Judgment) Project is a collaborative research initiative to develop, vet, and transparently document a structured professional judgment framework specifically designed for AI-mediated risk pathways.
The Gap We're Addressing
Existing behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) frameworks — such as the WAVR-21, HCR-20, and others — were developed before the emergence of powerful AI companions, large language models, and generative AI systems that now interact directly with vulnerable individuals in unmediated ways.
Clinicians, threat assessment professionals, law enforcement, and crisis responders are increasingly encountering cases in which AI interaction appears to be a contributing or moderating factor in risk pathways — but they lack a structured, evidence-grounded tool to assess this domain.
Who We Are
The AIR-SPJ Project is led by Jameson Ritter, Totti Karpela, and Steven Crimando — practitioners and researchers working at the intersection of threat assessment, behavioral psychology, and AI risk.
What This Platform Does
- Maps SPJ framework elements to a structured, tiered evidence base
- Facilitates practitioner observation submissions with multi-stage editorial review
- Provides a public, transparent record of the framework's evidentiary foundation
- Supports future validation and academic publication efforts
Disclaimer
The AIR-SPJ is a proposed structured professional judgment framework under development. It is not validated and should not be used as a stand-alone tool for assessing or managing violence, self-harm, or suicide risk.