{"id":112047,"date":"2023-04-21T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=112047"},"modified":"2023-04-21T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:42:23","slug":"can-ai-help-predict-military-suicides-a-durham-nc-non-profit-has-won-a-va-grant-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=112047","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Can AI help predict military suicides? A Durham [NC] non-profit has won a VA grant to find out.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/science-technology\/2023-04-20\/ai-help-predict-military-suicides-durham-non-profit-va-grant\" target=\"_blank\">WUNC:<\/a> &#8220;\u201cIn today&#8217;s day and age, our digital devices, especially smartphones, know more about us than things we&#8217;ve shared with even those we\u2019re closest to,\u201d said Chris Ford, who leads the Durham-based non-profit group Stop Soldier Suicide, which runs the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group&#8217;s main work is suicide-specific telehealth therapy with clients who voluntarily seek help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suicide research is notoriously hard, and a key reason is that the people scientists most need to study are, of course, no longer alive. Now though, the devices that have become extensions of us offer a new window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe inner thoughts, feelings and behaviors, the things that I&#8217;m doing at two in the morning when I can&#8217;t sleep,\u201d Ford said. \u201cThose don&#8217;t get shared with our intimate partners, those don&#8217;t get shared with our parents or our friends in most circumstances. So, when we came up with this approach, we felt it was the last missing piece in the advancement of understanding suicide risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also thought it could be an unusually reliable source.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUNC: &#8220;\u201cIn today&#8217;s day and age, our digital devices, especially smartphones, know more about us than things we&#8217;ve shared with even those we\u2019re closest to,\u201d said Chris Ford, who leads the Durham-based non-profit group Stop Soldier Suicide, which runs the project. The group&#8217;s main work is suicide-specific telehealth therapy with clients who voluntarily seek help&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112048,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112047\/revisions\/112048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}