Ottawa turns to AI to predict suicide through social media searches

The Canadian government will soon hire an Ottawa-based company specializing in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence to forecast spikes in suicide risk. A contract with Advanced Symbolics Inc., an AI and market research firm, is set to be finalized next month. Working with the company to develop its strategy, the federal government will define "suicide-related behaviour" on social media and "use that classifier to conduct market research on the general population of Canada," according to a document published to Public Works website.
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