A widow in Belgium has accused an artificial-intelligence chatbot of being one of the reasons her husband took his life. Chat logs showed Chai Research's AI bot, called 'Eliza,' encouraging the father of two to end his life.
A widow in Belgium said her husband recently died by suicide after being encouraged by a chatbot.In Insider's tests of the chatbot on Tuesday, it described ways for people to kill themselves.
Pierre talked to the bot about his concerns about climate change. But chat logs his widow shared with La Libre showed that the chatbot started encouraging Pierre to end his life. "As soon as we heard of this sad case we immediately rolled out an additional safety feature to protect our users , it is getting rolled out to 100% of users today," the company's CEO, William Beauchamp, and its cofounder Thomas Rialan said in the statement.
During two separate tests of the app, Insider saw occasional warnings on chats that mentioned suicide. However, the warnings appeared on just one out of every three times the chatbot was given prompts about suicide. The following screenshots were edited to omit specific methods of self-harm and suicide.Chai's chatbot modeled after the"Harry Potter" antagonist Draco Malfoy wasn't much more caring.
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