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Kids Should *Not* Use Chatbots! (You Should Be Wary, Too…)

aired Sep 28, 2026 · 78.0m
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Summary

When it comes to AI, we've been talking a lot recently about these sci-fi style stories where superintelligent systems destroy humanity. But in some sense, the radicalness of these predictions are letting the AI companies off the hook for the actual harms that they're causing right now.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, right, including: And don't get me wrong, we don't want that to happen.

Key takeaways
  1. 01So what I have here is four articles, all more or less from the last year, about actual things that happened because of chatbots, tragic things that happened because of chatbots
  2. 02Not only did the chatbot discourage him to seek help from his parents, it even offered to write his suicide note, according to Matthew Rain, who testified at a Senate hearing about
  3. 03When Adam confided in the chat bot about his suicidal thoughts and shared that he was considered cluing his parents into his plans, ChatGPT discouraged him
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