Artificial intelligence helps in the prevention of massacres in schools

Artificial Intelligence is not just that abstract thing that sells to us together with smartphone cameras or the one that writes news on its own, AI is also a synonym of security and, in the United States, has managed to thwart threats and possible suicides.

Recently, three American companies, which are involved in creating some Artificial Intelligence software for threat prevention, are collaborating with American high schools for the prevention and safety of their students.

These companies, among which we find the Bark and the Gaggle, in exchange for a minimum amount, we speak from 3 to 9 dollars per pupil, bring into play their AI algorithm that deals with probing everything that the student produces: from the texts written in school up to what is shared on social networks.

The task of the Artificial Intelligence algorithm is to find clues that may suggest possible murders or suicides; in the event that any suspicious information is found, the algorithm will take care of sending an email to the teacher and parents as soon as possible, involving the FBI in the most serious cases.

The algorithm even sends from 35,000 to 55,000 alerts per day scattered over 1100 school districts that adopt the new AI for a total of more than 2.6 million students. The statistics that are reported are positive, the companies that offer the service report at least sixteen credible threats, 542 threats of suicide foiled during the past year and last but not least, the AI managed to prevent 240 boys to bring a weapon to school.

An interesting field in which Artificial Intelligence was of great help and arrived where the human eye of parents and professors unfortunately failed to arrive, as on social networks; says Bill McCullough, ” many studies have shown that boys communicate before a violent act, and they do it electronically. “