{"id":64245,"date":"2025-10-07T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:16:08","slug":"ais-suicide-problem-knows-no-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64245\/","title":{"rendered":"AI&#8217;s Suicide Problem Knows No Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">How are Chinese artificial intelligence developers protecting their most vulnerable users? A string of dystopian headlines in the US about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/26\/technology\/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">suicide<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-16\/parents-slam-openai-character-ai-over-safety-in-senate-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">youth mental health<\/a> has put mounting pressure on Silicon Valley, but we\u2019re not seeing a similar wave of cases in China. Initial testing suggests that they may be doing something right, although it\u2019s just as likely such cases would never see the light of day in China\u2019s tightly controlled media environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A wrenching wrongful death <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/openai-hit-with-suit-from-family-of-teen-who-died-by-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">lawsuit<\/a> against OpenAI filed by the parents of Adam Raine alleges that the 16-year-old died by suicide after the chatbot isolated him and helped plan his death. OpenAI told the New York Times it was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the tragedy, and promised a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-26\/openai-plans-to-update-chatgpt-as-parents-sue-over-teen-s-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">slew of updates<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-29\/openai-launches-parental-controls-for-chatgpt-after-teen-s-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">parental controls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How are Chinese artificial intelligence developers protecting their most vulnerable users? A string of dystopian headlines in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,43936,114,43935,246,1523,61,60,43934,4269,58,80,11510,1519],"class_list":["post-64245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-baidu-inc-spon-adr","tag-china","tag-douyin-co-ltd","tag-environment","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-new-york-times-co-a","tag-regulation","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-view","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}