While I'm sympathetic to bereaved families, I find it difficult to assign much blame to AI providers for this sort of thing.
Developed countries have a suicide rate around 11 suicides per 100,000 people, per year [1]. So if an AI provider has 700 million weekly active users, every year we'd expect 77,000 suicides by people who'd used the service in the last 7 days.
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While I'm sympathetic to bereaved families, I find it difficult to assign much blame to AI providers for this sort of thing.
Developed countries have a suicide rate around 11 suicides per 100,000 people, per year [1]. So if an AI provider has 700 million weekly active users, every year we'd expect 77,000 suicides by people who'd used the service in the last 7 days.
[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-202...
People suiciding and a chatbot inciting you to suicide aren't the same thing.