According to
available data, suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15- to
29-year-olds and quite alot of it has been committed live using Facebook and
other
social media sites.
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.
Its community
operations team will then review the posts to decide if Facebook should surface
crisis resources to the user. 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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