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Is AI Ready to Prevent School Shootings? (theatlantic.com)
1 point by dsr12 on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



No. Don't even need to read the article.

You're looking for a very tiny needle in an enormous haystack. You're going to get flooded by false positives. If you turn up the filter enough to filter out false positives you'll miss real ones. If you investigate every false positive you'll create a civil liberties controversy plus you will get so fatigued investigating false positives you'll once again miss real ones.

"AI" is not magic secret sauce that lets you escape the fundamental limits of statistics and information theory. Claude Shannon would like a word with you.

The only solution to the school shooting problem is to ask why this is only a big thing in the USA. I think it's a mixture of culture, ready access to guns, and an awful mental health system (and health care system in general).




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