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VA officials say REACH VET remains human-controlled as AI aids suicide-prevention outreach
Summary
VA witnesses described the REACH VET suicide-prevention program as an AI-assisted identification tool, emphasized human clinical control over outreach and care, and said the agency updates and monitors the model to preserve clinician judgment.
At a congressional subcommittee hearing, VA witnesses described REACH VET as an AI-driven risk-identification program that has been in operation since 2017 and said clinicians — not AI — control outreach and treatment decisions. "Since 2017, the REACH VET program... has used AI algorithms to identify over 130,000 veterans at elevated risk," Charles Worthington said in his…
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