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Will Trump support HARPA the health-care AI equivalent of DARPA?

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As J.P. Morgan put it, "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." Such is the case with the potential rolling out of new gov backed high tech. There is the benevolent PR selling point behind which are concerns about to what real use such will be put, in the near or distant future. The PR front is "a way to identify early signs of changes in people with mental illness that could lead to violent behavior" premised upon "gun control following recent mass shootings…volunteer data to identify'neurobehavioral signs' of'someone headed toward a violent explosive act'…it would not collect sensitive health data about individuals without their permission"--about this last part, I will say "yeah, right": can you say "Snowden"? We are told that "there are plenty of researchers and mental health experts who believe that mental health and gun violence aren't necessarily linked. Mental illness can sometimes be a factor in such violent acts…no more than a quarter of mass shooters have a diagnosed mental illness."