AI can analyze speech patterns to predict potential health issues like suicidality, depression, mania, psychosis, and neurodegeneration years before clinical symptoms appear.

“Yeah, there's a lab up in University of Washington, um I think it's Sam Golden's lab who um uh working on some really impressive algorithms to analyze speech patterns as a way to predict suicidality. >> Oh, interesting. and to great success where people don't realize that they're drifting in that direction. >> Um and phones can potentially warn people, >> warn them themselves, right? Um that they're drifting in a particular direction. People who have um cycles of depression or mania can know whether or not they're drifting into that. That can be extremely useful. Um they can discern who else gets that information. >> Absolutely. I mean um neural degeneration it shows up and you know short assessment of how people speak uh they've definitely been able to show potential likelihood of psychosis. um you know and and that's with uh syntactic completion and and how people read read read paragraphs. Um neural degeneration though things like Alzheimer's show up in speech because of the you know linguistic cues can show up but you know sometimes 10 years before a typical clinical uh uh symptom would show up that would be identified and and what I what I think is important”