Facebook Plans Using Artificial Intelligence to prevent Suicide
Facebook Plans Using Artificial Intelligence to prevent Suicide – According to available data, there is one death by suicide in the world every 40 seconds, and suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15- to 29-year-olds and quite a lot of it has been committed live using Facebook and other social media sites.
Now, Facebook wants to leverage artificial intelligence to help with prevention. The company announced yesterday that it is testing the ability for AI to identify potential “suicide or self injury” posts based on pattern recognition from posts that have been previously flagged on the site in the past.
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Its community operations team will then review the posts to decide if Facebook should surface crisis resources to the user.
“We are testing a streamlined reporting process using pattern recognition in posts previously reported for suicide. This artificial intelligence approach will make the option to report…more prominent,” Facebook says. “We’re also testing pattern recognition to identify posts as very likely to include thoughts of suicide.” For now, the test is limited to the U.S.
In 2016, Facebook made some suicide prevention tools available to its 1.86 billion monthly active users: People can flag questionable posts for the company to review. Facebook will either suggest the person in distress reaches out to a friend, with an optional pre-populated text to break the ice. It also suggests help line information and resources.
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Recall also, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in February he was looking to further thwart violent extremist communication on the site, but the technology needed to fully accomplish that goal “will take many years to fully develop.”
“Right now, we’re starting to explore ways to use AI to tell the difference between news stories about terrorism and actual terrorist propaganda so we can quickly remove anyone trying to use our services to recruit for a terrorist organization,” Zuckerberg explained.
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