Jay Edelson

Maria knew.

But if you had asked me April 10th, and he died on April 11th, hey, your son's using ChatGBT every day, I mean, I would have thought at the time, well, that's great.

I mean, I've only heard positive things about it.

I didn't think of it as a companion.

I didn't know about its programming.

I didn't know to be worried about ChatGBT.

When we first got into Adam's phone,

we thought because we had no we we did not know he was suicidal of course i had no idea uh our first thing was this had to be a mistake he he had a uh maybe it was a dare a challenge that went bad or god is there a bully are we going to find something on social media that you know what happened we didn't know we were looking for chat gbt

when he got into his phone within three minutes four minutes of being in that app it was crystal clear for at least a full month he had been in a major crisis he was committing or attempting to commit he was talking about suicide topics three four hours a day every day showing evidence of attempts strategizing he needed he didn't need a you know a couple counseling sessions and a pep talk he needed immediate suicide intervention and that's

And that should have been very clear.

What we saw, what I saw, particularly Megan in his last maybe month, he was seeming more withdrawn.

I said this before, but I thought he was mad at me because he was learning to drive and I'd been tough on him about a fender bender.

So I was like, gosh, Adam just seems a little mad with me.

He's not hanging out as much in the family hot tub or the dinners.

He's not coming down.

He's just seeming a little more to himself.

So we, and I think we talked about that, right?

And he did that for a handful of weeks.

He was seeming a little bit depressed, but we were just thinking, hey, he's got a family vacation this summer.

He's going back to in-person school.