Man Reportedly Committed Suicide Following Conversation with Chai Chatbot
March 27, 2023
A Belgian man reportedly committed suicide following a conversation with Eliza, a language model developed by Chai that encouraged the man to commit suicide to improve the health of the planet.
- Alleged deployer
- chai
- Alleged developer
- chai
- Alleged harmed parties
- family-and-friends-of-deceased, belgian-man
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/505
Data source
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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