Crisis text tool predicts imminent suicide risk in new chats after training on 16,000 conversations
When people reach out during a mental health crisis, a top priority for counselors is identifying those at high risk of suicide. The distressed person's language holds critical clues, and a new tool developed by scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research is designed to pick up on and rapidly evaluate those signals.
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