Police are investigating a murder-suicide in what appears to be the first documented murder involving someone who engaged extensively with an AI chatbot (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Excerpt: A key feature of AI chatbots is that, generally, the bot “doesn’t push back,” said Dr. Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco who has treated 12 patients over the past year who were hospitalized for mental-health emergencies involving AI use.
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Excerpt continued: “Psychosis thrives when reality stops pushing back, and AI can really just soften that wall.”
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