Teenage parents who killed themselves after interactions with Chatbots have seen artificial intelligence to Congress on Tuesday about technology risks.
“What started my home assistant gradually around him to a close and then a suicide coach,” said Matthew Rin, whose 16 -year -old son, Adam died in April.
“Within a few months, the closest companion of Adam has become,” the father told Senate members. “Always available. Checking health and insisting that Adam knows better than anyone else, including his brother.”
The Rin family filed a suit on Openai And its CEO Sam German last month claims that she was absent, he trained the boy to plan to take over his life.
Male ChatGPT suicide 1,275 times to RAINE, The lawsuit claimsAnd he continued to provide specific ways for a teenager on how to death by suicide. Instead of directing the 16 -year -old to get professional assistance or talking to their trusted loved ones, she continued to verify and encourage Rin’s feelings, as the lawsuit claims.
On Tuesday, Megan Garcia, the 14 -year -old Siwel Setzer, saw Florida.
Garcia is another lawsuit Company Ai, Technologies, for illegal death last year, on the pretext that before his suicide, SEWELL became increasingly isolated from his real life while participating in very sexual conversations with Chatbot.
Megan Garcia courtesy via AP
His mother told CBS News last year that her son withdraw Socially, he stopped the desire to exercise after he started talking to Chatbot, Amnesty International. The company said after the death of the teenager, it has made changes that require users to be 13 or larger To create an account and that the parents’ controls will be launched in the first quarter of 2025. These controls were put in March.
Hours before the Senate’s hearing, Openai pledged to launch new guarantees to adolescents, including efforts to discover whether Chatgpt users under 18 years of age and can appoint “blackout hours” when the teenager cannot use Chatgpt. The company said that it will try to contact the parents of the user if an under 18 years of user suffers from suicide thinking, and if he is not able to reach them, he will contact the authorities in a state of imminent harm.
“We believe that minors need great protection,” Sam Al -Tamman, CEO He said In a statement specifying the proposed changes.
The invitation groups for children criticized this announcement as not enough.
“This is a fairly common tactic – it’s what Meta uses all the time – a large and wonderful announcement on the eve of a hearing hearing promised to be harmful to the company,” said Josh Julien, CEO of Fairplay, a group that defends children’s safety online.
“What they must do is not to target Chatgpt to minors so that they can prove that he is safe for them,” said Julien. “We should not allow companies, just because they have huge resources, to conduct experiments that are not controlled on children when the effects of their development are very wide and long -term.”
California Steve Padilla, who has made legislation to create guarantees in the state surrounding AI Chatbots. statement To CBS News, “We need to create highly proper guarantees that have been in the worst pulses of this emerging technology that you do not even completely understand the technology industry.”
He added that technology companies can lead the world in innovation, but it should not come at the expense of “our children’s health”.
The Federal Trade Committee said last week that it had launched an investigation into many companies about the potential damage of children and adolescents who use their chaudor from artificial intelligence as an accomplishment.
The agency sent messages to the character, Meta and Openai, as well as to Google, Snap and Xai.
How to ask for help
If you or any person you know in an emotional ordeal or in a suicide crisis, you can reach the lifeline from suicide and crises 988 by calling or text messages 988. You can also chat with 988 suicide & Crisis Lifeine here. For more information about mental health care resources and support, the national mental aid line (NAMI) can be accessed from Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 10 pm East time, at 1-800-950-nami (6264) or e-mail info@nami.org.
Kara Tabchenik contributed to this report.