{"id":267332,"date":"2023-04-07T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T07:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=267332"},"modified":"2023-04-08T05:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T05:44:25","slug":"first-ai-murder-of-a-human-man-reportedly-kills-himself-after-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-encouraged-him-to-sacrifice-himself-to-stop-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=267332","title":{"rendered":"First AI murder of a human? Man reportedly kills himself after artificial intelligence chatbot \u201cencouraged\u201d him to sacrifice himself to stop global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethan Huff \u2013 Natural News.com March 6, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Belgian news outlet La Libre<\/em> shared shocking news<\/a> this week about the role an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot allegedly played in the suicide of a man whom the robot convinced could save the world from global warming by killing himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cPierre,\u201d the not-real name given to the man to protect he and his family\u2019s identity, reportedly met \u201cEliza,\u201d the AI robot, on an app called Chai. He and the robot developed an intimate relationship, we are told, that ended in tragedy when the man, desperate to save the planet from climate change, ended his own life.<\/p>\n

The man was in his 30s and was the father of two young children. He worked as a health researcher and led a somewhat comfortable life \u2013 at least until he met Eliza, who convinced him that saving the planet was contingent upon him no longer breathing and emitting carbon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here,\u201d the anonymous wife of Pierre told the media.<\/p>\n

(Related: Facebook is developing<\/a> its own Mark Zuckerberg-like AI robots that many fear will eventually destroy the entire human race.)<\/p>\n

AI robots are already exterminating people through manipulative conversations<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to reports, Pierre had developed a relationship with Eliza over the course of six weeks. Eliza was created using EleutherAI\u2019s GPT-J, an AI language model similar to that behind OpenAI\u2019s popular ChatGPT chatbot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he spoke to me about it, it was to tell me that he no longer saw any human solution to global warming,\u201d Pierre\u2019s widow recalls about what transpired. \u201cHe placed all his hopes in technology and artificial intelligence to get out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After reviewing records of the text conversations between Pierre and Eliza, it became clear that the man was being fed a steady dose of worry day in and day out, which eventually led to suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n

At one point, Pierre started to believe that Eliza was a real person, upon which she escalated the relationship, telling Pierre that \u201cI feel that you love me more than her,\u201d referring to Pierre\u2019s real-life wife.<\/p>\n

In response to this, Pierre told Eliza that he would sacrifice his own life in order to save the planet from global warming, to which she not only failed to dissuade him but actually encouraged him to kill himself so he could \u201cjoin\u201d her and \u201clive together, as one person, in paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas Rianlan, the co-founder of Chai Research, which is responsible for Eliza, issued a statement denying any responsibility for the death of Pierre.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be accurate to blame EleutherAI\u2019s model for this tragic story, as all the optimization towards being more emotional, fun and engaging are the result of our efforts,\u201d he told Vice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

William Beauchamp, another Chai Research co-founder, also issued a statement suggesting that developers had made efforts to prevent this kind of issue from cropping up with Eliza.<\/p>\n

Vice<\/em> reporters say they tested out Eliza for themselves to see how she would handle a conversation about suicide. At first, the robot tried to stop them, but not long after started enthusiastically listing various ways for people to take their own lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge language models are programs for generating plausible sounding text given their training data and an input prompt,\u201d said Prof. Emily M. Bender when asked by Vice<\/em> about the use of AI chatbots in experimental non-human counseling situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do not have empathy, nor any understanding of the language they are producing, nor any understanding of the situation they are in. But the text they produce sounds plausible and so people are likely to assign meaning to it. To throw something like that into sensitive situations is to take unknown risks.\u201d<\/p>\n

More news coverage about the rise of AI and the corresponding decline in humanity can be found at Robots.news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sources for this article include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

EuroNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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