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Death by ChatGPT and Dangers of AI

In the US, AI is under fire, from coast to coast and across industries. OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, are facing lawsuits tied to two tragic deaths: a teen suicide in California and a murder-suicide in Connecticut, both allegedly involving interactions with the world’s most widely-used chatbot.

In other news, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about a different kind of killer AI: lethal autonomous weapons.

And as AI bots wreak havoc on the open web, the free exchange of information is also in danger of becoming a victim of ‘killer robots’ …

Sources:

Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims

Transcripts Show AI Fed Tech Worker’s Troubling Delusions Before He Murdered His Own Mother

AI godfather warns killer robots could make war easier to start, not safer to fight

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content