Can AI help stop school shootings?

[Still Waters]

For all their stunning frequency, school shootings remain a confounding horror.

Not only is there little consensus on how to stop them—with suggestions ranging from restricting gun access to arming teachers—but there’s even less certainty about why a student would open fire on his classmates.

Now, some scientists are starting to explore if artificial intelligence (AI) could help find answers. The idea is that algorithms might be able to better analyze data related to school shootings, and perhaps even identify patterns in student language or behavior that could foreshadow school violence.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/can-artificial-intelligence-help-stop-school-shootings-180969288/

[+and-then]

This is a very interesting concept for analyzing patterns related to shooter's personalities.  If approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective and very, very carefully studied before being implemented, it just might help the problem rather than add to it or generate other problems.  My fear is that the data that it would generate might be misused by the people who are supposed to be helping.  Any attempt to mitigate these tragedies should be considered carefully.  

[moonman]

I don't think they could possibly have enough info on the individual shooters to make such a computation work. Even if they had it, they won't have the same info on everyone else that may do the same thing.

The name list it generates would be so broad as to be useless.