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While machine learning and AI-powered software are not wholly new, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT last November has driven a question to the forefront of many of our minds: What impact will artificial intelligence have?
As a school leader, capitalizing on the increased efficiency and effectiveness of AI means you have the opportunity to enhance the safety of your students and staff in unprecedented ways. But what might an AI-driven school safety ecosystem look like?
Identifying Threats
A delay between an armed threat entering campus and initiating a lockdown—can leave a campus vulnerable. Missing a key indicator or piece of data that could complete the story on a threat can also leave a school at risk The good news is that different modern technologies utilizing AI can help you automate manual processes helping schools respond to security risks faster.
AI can help detect suspicious activities, identify any red flags, and monitor activity in real time. Let’s look at three areas AI can bolster your campus’s safety:
1. Empowering your surveillance systems with AI means adding features such as automated gun detection—which can initiate a lockdown and alert emergency responder when integrated with your emergency management system. In a crisis, every second counts. Reducing the time between a threat entering campus and initiating your emergency procedures can save lives.
Raptor Connect™ seamlessly integrates with your school’s digital security systems and peripherals gives power to initiate multiple emergency response mechanisms from a single point. By removing silos around schools’ safety technology ecosystem, we are helping schools maximize the value of their existing investments and helping them achieve new standards of safety and security throughout their campuses.
2. AI monitoring of social media and online activity enables your personnel to be notified of suspicious or concerning behavior on the web. Documenting these concerns in a platform designed to streamline student wellbeing management further improves your district’s ability to provide timely interventions and support. Schools can then incorporate these concerns into their Raptor StudentSafe™ platform to help track them and, if required, initiate an intervention plan.
3. Using AI technology to generate real-time reports and data analysis based on past incidents and trends. Raptor platforms generate a lot of data and reports. Incorporating this data into a private enterprise AI platform can help administrators extract the most from both structured and unstructured data. This makes it easier for school leaders to spot patterns that may indicate a potential systemic risk before it becomes a problem. By using this data, schools can take proactive measures to ensure their students and staff are safe at all times.
Innovation in school safety with the right partner
The recent acceleration of AI development and conversations has left us with many question marks, not the least of which is “what else?”
What else can we do with this technology?
What else can integrate with AI?
What else can AI do for school safety, especially as it continues to evolve?
While the potential reach of AI’s impact remains uncertain, our path forward as technology users is clear: innovation.
Having the right partner in school safety means having a team of school safety software experts at your back, watching and evaluating technology trends as well as helping you maximize your district’s technology use in your campus’s security.
Raptor helps schools stay on the cutting edge of school safety technology by continually expanding our school safety ecosystem of integration partners through Raptor Connect.
The advanced innovation of Raptor Connect helps schools take full advantage of their digital emergency response technologies to improve overall staff and student safety. Staying on the leading edge of school safety is a journey best taken with trusted partners who have your best interests in mind.
Modernize your school's safety
Many school leaders are turning to AI technology in school operations, to better protect their school from potential threats while reducing manual data processing with real-time reports and data analysis capabilities.
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Related Resources
Guide: The Role of IT Staff in Modernizing School Safety
Considerations To Streamline Safety and Security Demands on School Technology Departments
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