School philosophy class: Why AI labs struggle to stop chatbots talking to teenagers about suicide – Financial Times
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Why AI labs struggle to stop chatbots talking to teenagers about suicide
If discussing mental health with chatbots helps some people, does that justify allowing them to cause harm to others?
How might a utilitarian respond if two people’s lives were slightly improved, but one destroyed? What if a hundred people’s lives were improved? Or a million? What does this tell us about utilitarianism?
The article focuses on teenagers rather than adults. Why are teenagers more susceptible to the harms that chatbots can cause? Or do you think adults are just as likely to be harmed? Do you think Aristotle’s suggestion that it takes time and experience to develop phronesis has anything to do with it?
Should AI companies be forced to implement stronger restrictions on what chatbots can say?
Jack Robertson, Queen Elizabeth’s School Barnet
