Facebook using artificial intelligence to spot suicidal users and offer real-time prevention

Facebook has developed artificial intelligence tools to identify warning signs of suicidal users and will activate real-time prevention and support simply by looking at the language they've used in posts. The recent increase of people broadcasting their suicides using Facebook Live has set into action algorithms that will be able to pick out certain words and phrases in individual posts and comments from friends. The pattern recognition process could pick up key phrases such as "I'm worried about you" and rapidly send the posts to a human operations team, who will quickly review them and provide support. The algorithms have been trained using text based on posts that were previously identified as being from users who were at risk. From this they are able to flag certain content to streamline the reporting process.