Study Says AI Chatbots Inconsistent in Handling Suicide-Related Queries
A new study found popular AI chatbots avoid the highest-risk suicide questions but give inconsistent responses to less direct prompts.
Health
FCC: Broadband Gaps Worsen Maternal Care Across U.S.
FCC’s updated mapping platform highlights critical links between connectivity and health outcomes.
988 Lifeline
FCC Proposes Notification Rules for 988 Suicide Hotline Lifeline Outages
The proposal would ensure providers give ‘timely and actionable information’ on 988 outages.
Gavin Newsom
FCC Testing Wireless Alerts, 6 GHz Concerns, California Privacy Bill for Minors
The FCC will test the location accuracy of wireless tests over two days in September.
COVID
Aspen Institute Panelists Discuss Technology’s Role in Combatting Mental Illness
August 13, 2020 — As a result of 2020’s myriad challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread economic instability and a societal reckoning with inequality, mental health issues are on the rise across various populations. This moment of heightened loneliness and mental health crises unders
