Federal government pilot project will use AI to predict suicides using social media data

The federal government will hire Ottawa-based Advanced Symbolics, which specializes in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence, to forecast spikes in suicide rates. A tender document explains this pilot project will last three months, after which the government will determine if future work will be useful for ongoing suicide surveillance. Instead of calling people to assess public opinion, Advanced Symbolics conducts its market research with AI that tracks social media accounts to build a representative sample of a population.
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