As a school counselor in Neosho, Missouri, Tracy Clements was skeptical that an AI tool could help her students’ mental health, or make any dent in the school’s suicide prevention efforts.

She entered the Neosho School District in the fall of 2012. Over the years, she started to notice a trend.

“I was an elementary building-level counselor for probably six years, and we just kept having all these suicides.” Clements said. “I was like, ‘Why is nobody doing anything about this?’ And nobody seemed to know what to do.”

She became the director of counseling for the district, and started developing a communitywide mental health task force to try to chip away at the problem.

After a few years, she was approached with a new tool: a beta version of an AI software that would monitor student acti

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