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Mexico is using an AI-powered app to prevent suicides by detecting small changes in behavior patterns, contributing to a 9% decrease in suicides
MeMind has connected 10,000 at-risk people with mental health treatment, contributing to a 9% drop in suicides.
The app’s success could have implications for the use of AI in combating a global mental illness epidemic among young people amid growing rates of depression, anxiety, and isolation, according to health experts. Smartphone apps like Yana use generative AI-powered chatbots to serve as counselors, while other forms of AI help diagnose mental illness by tracking sleep patterns through microphone data and determining mood by analyzing written responses, eye movement, and vocal tones. Enrique Baca, a psychiatrist from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain who helped develop the technology for MeMind, told Rest of World the app’s Spanish-language version was tailored for Yucatán following a series of meetings with the state’s Department of Health.
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