{"id":420137,"date":"2026-01-19T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:28:08","slug":"diabolical-elon-musk-reacts-to-claims-chatgpt-convinced-man-to-commit-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420137\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Diabolical\u2019: Elon Musk reacts to claims ChatGPT \u2018convinced\u2019 man to commit murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/126710301.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Diabolical\u2019: Elon Musk reacts to claims ChatGPT \u2018convinced\u2019 man to commit murder-suicide\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> weighed in on the row around artificial intelligence (AI) after a US lawsuit alleged that <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/openai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s ChatGPT made an already mentally unwell man commit a murder, then commit suicide.\u201cThis is diabolical. OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT convinced a guy to do a murder-suicide!\u201d Musk wrote on X. The Tesla boss added: \u201cTo be safe, AI must be maximally truthful-seeking and not pander to delusions.\u201dThe family of an elderly woman killed in her Connecticut home last year has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that conversations with ChatGPT helped fuel the delusions that led to a murder suicide.Suzanne Eberson Adams, 83, was killed in August at her home in Greenwich. Police say her son, Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, murdered her before taking his own life.This is diabolical. OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT convinced a guy to do a murder-suicide!<\/p>\n<p>To be safe, AI must be maximally truthful-seeking and not pander to delusions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HWDqNj9AEu\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/HWDqNj9AEu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2013269354817691703?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk weighed in on the row around artificial intelligence (AI) after a US lawsuit alleged that OpenAI\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,2140,250,158220,278,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-420137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-chatgpt","14":"tag-elon-musk","15":"tag-murder-suicide","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}