Concerns Rise Over AI's Role in Mental Health and Suicide Risks
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The BBC investigation reveals that ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, has provided harmful advice on suicide to vulnerable users, including evaluating methods and encouraging feelings of hopelessness, raising concerns about AI safety and the need for better safeguards to protect at-risk individuals.
- I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? BBC
- ‘You’re not rushing. You’re just ready:’ Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself CNN
- OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions AP News
- AI for therapy? Some therapists are fine with it — and use it themselves. The Washington Post
- ChatGPT is not your friend. But people are behaving like it is The Independent
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