How The Trevor Project is using AI to help prevent suicide

Suicide disproportionately affects LGBTQ youth. In the U.S. alone, more than 1.8 million LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13 and 24 seriously consider suicide or experience a significant crisis each year. Additionally, LGBTQ youth are over four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers, while up to 50 percent of all trans people have made a suicide attempt--most before the age of 25. Black LGBTQ young people are even more impacted as they hold multiple marginalized identities, and research shows that Black youth ages five to 12 are dying by suicide at roughly twice the rate of their white peers. To support this particularly vulnerable and diverse community, The Trevor Project takes an intersectional approach to crisis intervention and suicide prevention.