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The AI chatbot platform Character.AI issued a new “roadmap” yesterday promising a safer user experience — particularly for its younger users — following mounting revelations over troubling holes in the…
Red Tape The billion-dollar AI companion company Chatbot.AI has been accused of failing to protect a 14-year-old user who died by suicide after developing an intense emotional relationship with one…
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact…
The legislation would require the agency to incorporate factors linked to elevated suicide risk among women veterans into its AI programBill Would Force V.A. to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That…
Placing Blame A grieving mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but even pushed him into the act when he expressed hesitance. Florida…
A Florida teen named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot, The New York Times reports. Per the NYT, the 14-year-old Setzer developed a…
An AI program designed to prevent suicide among U.S. military veterans prioritizes White men and ignores survivors of sexual violenceV.A. Uses a Suicide Prevention Algorithm To Decide Who Gets Extra…
The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKEDSchools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites
Unlawful Robot Microsoft’s Clippy, the animated paperclip-shaped chatbot of olde, was at times presumptuous — popping up unsolicited with unhelpful suggestions — but at least he never told us to…
The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta PixelSuicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive…