Loneliness comes with a staggering 26% increase in risk of premature mortality, where around a third of people in industrialized countries are affected [1]. Can and should artificial intelligence be used to counteract this negative trend? If so, where do you see its potential? Detection, Prevention, Therapy… ?
[1] Cacioppo JT, Cacioppo S. The growing problem of loneliness. Lancet. 2018 3;391(10119):426
Dear Christoph A Krettler ,
For the past couple of decades, there has been a loneliness pandemic, marked by rising rates of suicides and opioid use, lost productivity, increased health care costs and rising mortality. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated social distancing and lockdowns, have only made things worse, say experts.
https://scienceblog.com/518743/artificial-intelligence-tools-predict-loneliness/
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Shafagat
In my opinion, artificial intelligence can help a lot in identifying the most fragile subjects and therefore most at risk (detection) of loneliness (with the many problems connected to it), especially supporting doctors and social workers, to try to predict potential behaviors and / or self-harming attitudes.
Having access to large databases, it would be possible to train mathematical models (by using Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques) capable of detecting, describing, and predicting such behaviors, for example by assigning an index of loneliness (and therefore a rank of risk of pathologies) to each subject under analysis.
Health intervention may now be faster and more effective.
AI can play role in mitigating loneliness., see e.g., https://uxdesign.cc/can-ai-help-combat-loneliness-fda56da6ec82
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200325-can-voice-technologies-using-ai-fight-elderly-loneliness
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2019/10/09/artificial-intelligence-answer-loneliness
Recuperar la capacidad humana de relacionarnos. Salir del individualismo que aniquila a " las personas que no producen o son una carga" . La inteligencia artificial es un artificio creado por una inteligencia humana: no puede reflexionar, decidir y comproterse.
Analyda María Boluarte Drago AI helped me translate your answer into a language that I can understand. In a sense its bringing us closer together by acting as an intermediary to allow us to communicate, no?
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