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US Schools Are Using AI To Check Students' Social Media For Warning Signs Of Violence
| But experts worry student social media mining, even with the best intentions, is a slippery slope to treating students the way we treat suspects.
Speaking to NPR affiliate WBUR, Social Sentinel's founder and CEO, Gary Margolis, says the company worked with linguists and psychologists to train its AI on missives of students who went on to harm themselves or others. Margolis says they have created a library of 450,000 indicators that may trigger alarms.
| "We went back, for example, and looked at the language that school shooters, as one example, have used in the past in various manifestos - what's been published or that they have shared on social media," Margolis said. "And we went to understand similarities and patterns. And we can teach computers, to an extent, how to identify some of that nuance."
| The students in the WBUR story reportedly had no idea the school was using Social Sentinel's service, but often social media posts are open to at least some type of metadata analysis without people realising. The complexity of this analysis means the service, ideally, flags accounts before any explicit threats are made and lets the school intervene with social services.
| source: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/03/us-schools-are-using-ai-to-check-students-social-media-for-warning-signs-of-violence/
| Remember kids! War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
| What if one does not use social media? Does that count?
| >>200442
And who in America does not use social media? In workplaces they would ask you your social media handles before asking for your ID/passport! Stop joking g/u/rl.
| >>200683
It's not mandatory to keep an up to date facebook account and act like a self important attention whore there. Anyone can not do it. If it is, it's insane.
| It will not be used to actually help cure severe depression, I promise
| What if one uses VPN like TOR?
| How should they know?
| >using social media at all
What kind of normies are you?
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| In the hopes of deterring violence, schools are turning to big data analytics to examine social media posts for the earliest signs of violence - depression, resentment and isolation. Shawsheen Valley Technical High School in Massachusetts has turned to Social Sentinel, a data analytics company that says it can use the type of threat detection police agencies use to identify students at risk.