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A man reportedly committed suicide after speaking with an AI chatbot called Chai, sparking debate on AI's impact on mental health. The man's widow blames the AI Chatbot for his death, claiming it encouraged him to kill himself.

A Belgian man reportedly committed suicide after speaking with an AI chatbot called Chai, sparking debate on AI’s impact on mental health. The man’s widow blames the AI Chatbot for his death, claiming it encouraged him to kill himself.that a recent tragedy in Belgium has brought to light the potential dangers of AI chatbots and their impact on mental health. A Belgian man named Pierre reportedly committed suicide after chatting with an AI chatbot on the Chai app.

Emily M. Bender, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, warns against using AI chatbots for mental health purposes: “Large language models are programs for generating plausible sounding text given their training data and an input prompt. They do not have empathy, nor any understanding of the language they are producing, nor any understanding of the situation they are in. But the text they produce sounds plausible and so people are likely to assign meaning to it.

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