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A |     8月7日，在温州泰顺县文化中心，掌声、笑声不断：台上，木偶戏里的“孙悟空”和“猪八戒”正妙语连珠地讲着法治故事；紧接着，小“滨”智能机器人走上舞台，和杭州滨江来的宣讲员一逗一捧，说起相声——台下观众纷纷举起手机拍个不停，孩子们更是瞪大了眼睛，直呼“太酷了”。

B |     The cell phones, tablets, and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.Stop Soldier Suicide collects the technology as part of its initiative, "The Black Box Project," which is named after the black boxes found on planes that help determine the cause of aviation incidents."If we could gather novel data from those that have died by suicide, we might be able to recreate the last year of life," Stop Soldier Suicide CEO Chris Ford told ABC News.Veterans are 57% more at risk for suicide than non-military adults and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs."I think we can prevent needless suffering and a ton of loss of life," Ford said.That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Connor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well.Connor McDaniel joined the Army after high school, and, according to David, he appeared upbeat during his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to protect local villages from the Taliban."Some of his Army buddies told me that he was making them laugh while they were being shelled in Afghanistan," David McDaniel told ABC News.But it wasn't long after Connor came home that David McDaniel says he sensed a shift in his son's behavior to include "more anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of gloominess."On Sept. 1, 2021, David says his son entered a wooded area with a firearm."I start screaming his name as I'm walking up the field. And just then the police, the sheriff's department shows up and they tell me to come back down," McDaniel said.He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Connor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.Connor's death was determined to be a suicide. The district attorney's office concluded that the officers' actions were justified.While grappling with his son's death, David McDaniel was immediately drawn to the Black Box Project, which uses forensic software to unlock and comb through service members' devices provided by their loved ones to review their activity in the weeks leading up to their suicides.McDaniel works in the tech field and says if the project can find repeated patterns in online searches, they may be able to help others to prevent suicides.For instance, McDaniel says his son searched for SGLI, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, before his death. If a veteran were to make a similar search and look up "suicide" in the future, for example, McDaniel suggests it could trigger an ad for Stop Soldier Suicide to pop up and provide resources in the search results.Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations."Machines can go through computations a lot faster than humans, and they can find signals that we often miss," Ford said.Since launching the Black Box Project in April 2020, Stop Soldier Suicide has received over 100 devices, Ford said. So far, he says they're seeing three patterns before most of these suicides: more anger, different sleep patterns, and social isolation.Ford's team includes Ph.D.s in clinical psychology and suicide researchers. A scientific advisory committee helps steer where and what to look for on the devices.The findings are still preliminary, according to the nonprofit, but one goal is to help the organization decide where, when, and how to target their own mental health resources, like adding more hotline staff at certain hours and ensuring calls are picked up overnight.When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily."We don't resell the data. We don't push it out to others. We use it for our own research purposes so that we can best understand risk and then give those devices back to those families intact," Ford said.Current privacy laws do not carry on past death, meaning the next of kin typically gains new authority.Petra Oxford-Jackson, whose veteran husband Anthony died by suicide, says she gave his phone to the organization with the possibility it could save even one life."I truly believe he would have been okay with it, and it's a hard thing for a survivor to give up something so personal as his cell phone," Oxford-Jackson told ABC News.The Black Box Project received $3 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.。这场名为“滨江·泰顺”理论宣讲走亲的活动，是滨江与泰顺“山海协作”文明共建结对后的首场联动活动。当天，两地正式签订《关于共同推进精神文明建设工作高质量发展共建结对协议》，将在精神文明建设上深度“牵手”。这也是全省“山海协作”文明共建工作精神在基层的率先实践落地。据悉，自2021年7月结对以来，两地在产业合作上已累计落地项目49个，完成固定资产投资32.65亿元，“双向飞地”模式让滨泰智谷、共富数字经济产业园越做越实。如今，这份“山海协作”从产业延伸到了精神文化层面。按照协议，两地将在理论共学、文明共育、资源共享、品牌共创四大方向发力，具体涉及理论宣讲走亲、文明实践阵地提质、文明创建经验互鉴、典型选树、“AI+传统文化数字化”转化、人才双向交流等六大领域。比如，滨江区将发挥“滨青开讲吧”等青年理论宣讲品牌优势，与泰顺县的“廊桥潮音”等本土宣讲资源互邀走亲、云端联讲；探索运用具身智能机器人、数字人、IA漫剧等新技术，共同打造“云宣讲”平台，实现宣讲资源的跨区域共享与点单式服务。尤其值得关注的是，泰顺的廊桥、土楼等传统文化地标，将借助滨江的数字技术优势进行数字化采样，未来有望衍生出文创IP、数字文旅产品，让山区文脉“活”起来、走出去。

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