At Seoul's bridge control center, AI helps stop 99% of suicide attempts - The Korea Times
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For most Seoul residents, the Han River is a place for evening strolls, picnics and a brief respite from city life. But for Kim Jun-young, chief of...

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.

  • FTonsilStones@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Oops, my bad for didn’t read the whole article.

    Still, the technology has its weaknesses. Kim said the system carries a hallucination rate of about 15 percent, including instances where it misidentifies an object as a person, which is why human judgment remains the final call.

    The AI only flagged the people (or the objects it misidentified as people), but the human still decides whether those people are worth checking on. I think it still the human’s fault if a lot of innocent people get harrassed by the police.