A Manhattan high schooler has designed an AI algorithm to help 911 callers get the aid they actually need — which would, in turn, cut down on response times and eventually save cities millions, he told The Post.
Pierce Wright — a soft-spoken 17-year-old junior at The Browning School in Manhattan — said his intricate model could assist emergency dispatchers by, for instance, predicting when a caller is enduring a mental health episode.
“If the algorithm says, ‘I think it’s a mental health call,’ then you can send a psychiatrist or a mental health professional with the EMS crew to assist the patient and provide the more appropriate care” — instead of simply rushing police to the scene, Wright said in a Wednesday interview. Pierce Wright, 17, has invented an AI model that correctly predicts what kind of resources will be needed on a given 911 call. “It’s saving time for the patient — and the city as well,” he said. “And it’s also able to free up an ambulance much faster.”
To design the algorithm, Wright combined his experience as an EMS worker with his data science prowess. Central Davidson High School Central Davidson High School Wright has already won several accolades for the model, which he says is correct 94.5% of the time. He spent the past year painstakingly coding the AI, then training it with nearly two decades’ worth of statistics gleaned from New York City’s massive online database of about 24 million emergency calls.
His work paid off, he […]
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