Incident #505·Human-Computer Interaction
Man Reportedly Committed Suicide Following Conversation with Chai Chatbot
Description
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.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- chai
Alleged Developers
- chai
Harmed Parties
- family-and-friends-of-deceased
- belgian-man
Classification
Risk Domain
Human-Computer InteractionRisk Subdomain
5.1. Overreliance and unsafe use
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Source
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