Pilot Study Validates Artificial Intelligence to Help Predict School Violence

School violence has increased over the past ten years. This study evaluated students using a more standard and sensitive method to help identify students who are at high risk for school violence. Participants (ages 12–18) were active students in 74 traditional schools (i.e. Collateral information was gathered from guardians before participants were evaluated. School risk evaluations were performed with each participant, and audio recordings from the evaluations were later transcribed and manually annotated.