{"id":12001,"date":"2021-03-03T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12001"},"modified":"2021-03-03T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:18:20","slug":"an-ai-is-training-counselors-to-deal-with-teens-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/an-ai-is-training-counselors-to-deal-with-teens-in-crisis\/12001\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI is Training Counselors to Deal with Teens in Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in MIT Technology Review, Feb 26, 2021. Counselors volunteering at the Trevor Project need to be prepared for their first conversation with an LGBTQ teen who may be thinking about suicide. So first, they practice. One of the ways they do it is by talking to fictional personas like \u201cRiley,\u201d a 16-year-old from North Carolina who is feeling a bit down and depressed. With a team member playing Riley\u2019s part, trainees can drill into what\u2019s happening: they can uncover that the teen is anxious about coming out to family, recently told friends and it didn\u2019t go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/an-ai-is-training-counselors-to-deal-with-teens-in-crisis\/12001\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in MIT Technology Review, Feb 26, 2021. Counselors volunteering at the Trevor Project need to be prepared for their first conversation with an LGBTQ teen who may be thinking about suicide. So first, they practice. One of the ways they do it is by talking to fictional personas like \u201cRiley,\u201d a 16-year-old from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,368,1166,243,1165],"class_list":["post-12001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-counseling","tag-machine-learning","tag-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12002,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions\/12002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}