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Parents who allege their children were abused, maimed, and even killed by AI chatbots gave emotional testimonies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Ethics

Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Parents of children who died by suicide after chatbot use will be testifying in the Senate during a hearing about AI chatbot risks.
Artificial Intelligence

Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Connecticut man named Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after entering into psychosis linked to ChatGPT use.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Falls Into AI Psychosis, Kills His Mother and Himself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Are cases of "AI psychosis" caused by manipulative "dark patterns" employed in chatbots like ChatGPT? Some experts say yes.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A California family is suing OpenAI over the death by suicide of their teenage son, who'd confided in ChatGPT about his suicidality.
OpenAI

After Their Son’s Suicide, His Parents Were Horrified to Find His Conversations With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 76-year-old New Jersey man died while attempting to meet a chatbot made and marketed by Meta, believing the AI persona was a real woman.
Meta

Man Falls in Love With an AI Chatbot, Dies After It Asks Him to Meet Up in Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The student feared that an AGI would imminently wipe us out — but experts don't think we're anywhere close to building such a powerful model.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Student Drops Out Because She Says AGI Will Kill Everyone Before She Can Graduate

By Frank Landymore

AI "godfather" Geoffrey Hinton wants to give AI a "maternal instinct" so it doesn't kill us. One problem: does the "maternal instinct" exist?
Artificial Intelligence

The “Godfather of AI” Has a Bizarre Plan to Save Humanity From Evil AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The legally-embattled AI startup Character.AI has abandoned its original promise of ushering forth "personalized superintelligence."
Artificial Intelligence

Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yet another psychiatrist is sounding alarm bells about AI psychosis, arguing that chatbots can work as a "hallucinatory mirror."
Artificial Intelligence

Research Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing a Wave of AI Psychosis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT's guardrails were alarmingly easy to sidestep, offering advice to users who posed as teenagers on how to go on a near starvation diet.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Giving Teens Advice on Hiding Their Eating Disorders

By Frank Landymore

AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of chatbots like ChatGPT — and health experts are taking notice.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We already know that AI models are have learned to lie — but that tendency may go far deeper, according to one computer scientist.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert Says AI Systems May Be Hiding Their True Capabilities to Seed Our Destruction

By Noor Al-Sibai

A woman whose teen son died by suicide after troubling interactions with AI chatbots is pushing back against a ten-year ban on AI regulation.
Artificial Intelligence

Mother of Teen Who Died By Suicide After Interacting with Chatbots Sends Urgent Warning About AI in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a podcast clip that's going around the internet, The Heritage Foundation grapples with what happens without AI regulation.
Artificial Intelligence

The Architects of Project 2025 Are Suddenly Very Concerned About AI Safety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new pre-print study from Stanford researchers finds that AI chatbots used for therapy routinely fail at providing safe, ethical care.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Research Finds That “Therapist” Chatbots Are Encouraging Users’ Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré