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Concerned about teen suicide, Siddhu Pachipala, a senior at The Woodlands College Park High School in Texas, saw an opportunity for AI to help detect signs of suicide. Knowing that early signs of suicide can often be missed by loved ones, he designed an app that uses natural language processing to scan individuals' writing and assist them in self-assessing their risk of suicide, identifying their needs, and connecting them with nearby clinics. The prototype app, named SuiSensor, gave him national recognition and an opportunity to give a speech at Washington D.C. His project is one of many trying to use AI to help young people with their mental health and identifying risk; however, there are still many unanswered questions and lack of research regarding this method. Matt Nock, a Harvard professor who studies self-harm in young people, says, "A lot of this work is really well-intended, trying to use machine learning, artificial intelligence to improve people's mental health ... but unless we do the research, we're not going to know if this is the right solution."
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