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Artificial Intelligence-Based Suicide Prediction
Get PDFSuicidal thoughts and behaviors are an international public health problem contributing to 800,000 annual deaths and up to 25 million nonfatal suicide attempts. In the United States, suicide rates have increased steadily for two decades, reaching 47,000 per year and surpassing annual motor vehicle deaths. This trend has prompted government agencies, healthcare systems, and multinational corporations to invest in artificial intelligence-based suicide prediction algorithms. This article describes these tools and the underexplored risks they pose to patients and consumers. AI-based suicide prediction is developing along two separate tracks. In medical suicide prediction, Al analyzes data from patient medical records. In social suicide prediction, Al analyzes consumer behavior derived from social media, smartphone apps, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Because medical suicide prediction occurs within the context of healthcare, it is governed by the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects patient privacy; the Federal Common Rule, which protects the safety of human research subjects; and general principles of medical ethics. Medical suicide prediction tools are developed methodically in compliance with these regulations, and the methods of its developers are published in peer-reviewed academic journals. In contrast, social suicide prediction typically occurs outside the healthcare system where it is almost completely unregulated. Corporations maintain their suicide prediction methods as proprietary trade secrets. Despite this lack of transparency, social suicide predictions are deployed globally to affect people\u27s lives every day. Yet little is known about their safety or effectiveness. Though AI-based suicide prediction has the potential to improve our understanding of suicide while saving lives, it raises many risks that have been underexplored. The risks include stigmatization of people with mental illness, the transfer of sensitive personal data to third-parties such as advertisers and data brokers, unnecessary involuntary confinement, violent confrontations with police, exacerbation of mental health conditions, and paradoxical increases in suicide risk
The Structure of Torts
Get PDFTort law consists of a number of different causes of action which are seemingly unrelated except that all involve civil wrongs, other than mere breaches of contract. The various torts have different elements; some, like the nominate or intentional torts, very specific; others, like negligence, more general and vague. There is no apparent, coherent, or consistent structure applicable to all torts. This Article articulates just such a unified structure for all torts: one that arises out of and is based upon the elements of negligence. All torts involve the judicial delineation of the defendant\u27s duty or legal obligation. All torts require the factfinder to decide if the defendant satisfied or breached that legal obligation. All torts involve a question of factual cause, or cause-in-fact, and, there is always an actual, or muted, consideration of legal cause. Finally, the factfinder considers and, if appropriate, awards damages-unless the plaintiff seeks some alternative remedy, in which case the judge may decide the remedial question. After articulating the structure, this Article applies it to a number of torts products liability, absolute liability, defamation, and battery. Through the process of articulating and applying the structure, it becomes clear that there are legal questions involving the precise scope and extent of the defendant\u27s duty or legal obligation within all of the various elements. This Article makes those issues plain and emphasizes that they are really questions of the defendant\u27s duty
FSU Law Focus - 08/09/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Deborah “Debby” Kearney (’81) is 2019 Exemplary Public Service Career Award winner; Faculty Profile: Adria E. Quintela; Alum Profile: Christine R. Davis (’02); Student Profile: 3L Elisabeth Avillahttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1212/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 11/15/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: FSU ranked #3 for qualiy of life in Princeton Review; Professor Logan Testified Before Florida House Subcommittee; Alum Profile: Terin Cremer (’10); Student Profile: 3L Luciana Walkerhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1044/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 09/06/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Annual Fund contributed reached all-time high; FSU Law Students Provide Free Tax Preparation for Low-Income Families; Alum Profile: Krista A. Storey (’83); Student Profile: 3L Ryan Dysonhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1098/thumbnail.jp
Melville\u27s Billy Budd and Plato\u27s Republic: Sea Captains and Philosopher-Kings
Get PDFThis article shows how Melville\u27s Billy Budd, rightly one of law and literature\u27s most widely studied canonical texts, answers Plato\u27s challenge in Book X of the Republic: Show how poets create better citizens, especially better rulers, or banish them from the commonwealth of reasoned law. Captain Vere is a flawed but instructive version of the Republic\u27s philosopher-king, even as his story is precisely the sort of poetry that Plato should willingly allow, by his own republican principles, into the ideal polity. Not surprisingly, the novella shows how law\u27s agents must be wise, even as their law must be philosophical, if they are to do justice. Paradoxically, the novella also shows how poetry can save law\u27s agents, particularly the more Platonic, from Captain Vere\u27s veer, a dangerous turn from fully legal justice to false and fatal severity.
Captain Vere has a tragic flaw all too common among leaders otherwise completely conscientious and competent: When faced with a range of courses-all legal, moral, and practicable- Vere invariably charts the most personally painful. Part of his no pain, no gain course steers him into fastidious studies that exclude both mere fiction and pure theory, ironically banishing Plato himself along with his poets But Vere\u27s own story, with its narrator\u27s frequent theoretical interruptions and occasional allusions to Plato, demonstrates that the reading ofjust such stories may deliver leaders like him from over-harsh treatment of themselves and their most vulnerable charges. The novella, then, not only reveals Captain Vere\u27s veer ; it also shows a way to avert that ever dangerous, often fatal tack. If the studious captain had been prepared to study stories like his own, his readings might have made him a vastly better guardian of his symbolic flock, particularly of Billy Budd, his most innocent sheep; had Starry Vere been more a philosopher-king and less a surrogate father-god, he need never have made his excruciating mistake, sacrificing his most beloved foster son to save their microcosmic world
FSU Law Focus - 09/13/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: 2019 Faculty Scholarship brochure; Professor Hsu in Israel for Workshop on Cost-Benefit Analysis; Alum Profile: Martha H. Chumbler (’78); Student Profile: 3L Freddelle Menardhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1106/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 06/07/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Pave the Way Campaign for Law Legacy Bricks; Faculty Profile: Andrew Carrabis; Alum Profile: F.T. “Frank” Williams (’92); Student Profile: 2019 Grad Andrew Meinkinghttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1153/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 06/24/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Summer for Undergraduates; Faculty Profile: Valencia Davis; Alum Profile: Max Jordan Solomon (’17); Student Profile: 2019 Grad Evan Etheridgehttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1169/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 05/24/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Sandy D\u27Alemberte\u27s passing; Faculty & Alum Profile: Christi A. Lawson (’01); Alum Profile: Paul M. Harden (’75); Student Profile: 2019 Grad Eugene Whitehttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1277/thumbnail.jp