AI tracking suicide

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Artificial intelligence can help forecast suicide rates. Here’s how.

Researchers at the CDC and Georgia Tech are using a whole lot of data, including social media, to forecast the suicide rate, a statistic that can lag by up to two years.

www.vox.com

This article talks about how AI is being used to predict suicide rates and trends from year to year, and how it can be used to track risk levels of users on social media.

 

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That's scary stuff, especially if it is used to violate privacy and civil liberties. This is not a good precedent and would lead to an Orwellian society (if we aren't already suffering enough as it is). Of course, Vox had to put a stupid obligatory suicide prevention notice boxed in, in the middle of the article.