An AI Used Facebook Data to Predict Mental Illness
WIRED
January 01, 2019
April 08, 2026
WIRED covered Penn research using Facebook post data and machine learning to identify signals of mental illness, exploring both the promise of AI-based mental health screening and the ethical questions around using social media data for clinical purposes. The piece highlighted how language patterns in posts can serve as early indicators of depression and other conditions. Featured: Sharath Guntuku.