Established in 2021, the center uses artificial intelligence (AI) for comprehensive emergency response, monitoring 900 CCTV cameras across 17 of Seoul’s 21 pedestrian-accessible Han River bridges. Beyond suicide prevention, its most frequent task, the center also handles criminal tracking, traffic accidents and drug enforcement.
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Much of that credit goes to AI, which triggers an alarm if an object identified as a person remains for more than 300 seconds in a bridge’s “loitering zones,” sections where people are able to stand for extended periods.
When it comes to suicide prevention, I’d prefer having a few false positives than any false negatives.
Stopping people from dying is good.
That’s not the issue where I criticised the false positive rate though, if you read my comment carefully. I hope I made it clearer with my edit.
people only said suicide detection was a good use of AI, not crime surveillance. and nobody’s pretending stopping a suicide attempt treats the underlying issues either, and that’s still better than not stopping it