Q&A: How AI can expand mental health support beyond the clinic

Researchers used a language model to review hundreds of thousands of narrative reports from a federal suicide database. The model identified legal interactions in roughly one out of ten cases. These findings show public health and social work professionals how nonclinical settings like law offices can serve as early contact points for suicide prevention.

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