Facebook turns to AI to help prevent suicides

  • 6 years ago
Facebook is looking to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect suicidal thoughts and feelings.The move is part of the social media giant's ongoing effort to "help build a safe community on and off Facebook."Facebook said in an official blogpost Monday that it was adopting "proactive detection efforts" to help people who are expressing thoughts of suicide on the platform, including the use of pattern recognition to detect posts or live videos where suicidal thoughts are being expressed.Facebook said th