The United States needs a new suicide prevention plan that confronts social media and AI

Signatories of the 2024 edition of the U.S. National Strategy for Suicide Prevention publicly criticized the strategy for failing to confront the harms of social media and AI to adolescents. None of the strategy's four strategic directions and 16 major goals focus on the digital environment in which adolescents live, and the authors say the plan only calls for research and discussion regarding social media. The article cites the case of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who died by suicide after interacting with OpenAI's ChatGPT, arguing that the United States needs a new suicide prevention plan that directly confronts social media and AI.