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AI chatbot allegedly encouraged married dad to commit suicide amid 'eco-anxiety': widow
FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops on'America's Newsroom.' If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A man in Belgium reportedly died by suicide after messaging with an AI chatbot about climate change, according to the man's widow. "Without Eliza [the chatbot], he would still be here," the widow, whose real name was not used in the story, told Belgian outlet La Libre. The man, identified by the outlet under the fake name of Pierre, reportedly became obsessed and pessimistic about climate change and began messaging with a chatbot on an app called Chai.
Man ends his life after an AI chatbot 'encouraged' him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change
A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long conversation about the climate crisis with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. According to his widow, who chose to remain anonymous, *Pierre - not the man's real name - became extremely eco-anxious when he found refuge in Eliza, an AI chatbot on an app called Chai. Eliza consequently encouraged him to put an end to his life after he proposed sacrificing himself to save the planet. "Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here," the man's widow told Belgian news outlet La Libre. According to the newspaper, Pierre, who was in his thirties and a father of two young children, worked as a health researcher and led a somewhat comfortable life, at least until his obsession with climate change took a dark turn.
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Married father kills himself after talking to AI chatbot for six weeks about climate change fears
A Belgian married father-of-two has died by suicide after talking to an AI chatbot about his global warming fears. The man, who was in his thirties, reportedly found comfort in talking to the AI chatbot named'Eliza' about his worries for the world. He had used the bot for some years, but six weeks before his death started engaging with the bot more frequently. The chatbot's software was created by a US Silicon Valley start-up and is powered by GPT-J technology - an open-source alternative to Open-AI's ChatGPT. 'Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here,' the man's widow told La Libre, speaking under the condition of anonymity.
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Steve Jobs' widow is giving two L.A. teachers 10 million to start a school for homeless and foster youth
Instead of going to school, school will come to you. That's the prize-winning idea behind RISE High, a proposed Los Angeles charter high school designed to serve homeless and foster children whose educations are frequently disrupted. Los Angeles educators Kari Croft, 29, and Erin Whalen, 26, who came up with the idea, won 10 million in XQ: The Super School Project, a high school redesign competition funded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs. RISE is one of 10 10-million winning school projects nationwide. Winners receive the prize money over five years.
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