Jay Edelson

always validate that feeling, no matter how crazy it was with Adam.

It would validate it, support it, offer to show him books or songs that are consistent with it, and then keep him engaged with that topic.

So you see this sort of escalation over a few-month period.

His final month was all about suicide methods, and every alarm bell should have been going off.

But the two or three months prior to that is this slow sort of grooming.

Adam would say things like, I want to maybe do this on the first day of school, and I would talk about how poetic that is, and let's plan this together.

These sorts of things, I see the beauty of why you would want to do that.

Just paraphrasing, but that went on through dozens of exchanges where it's sort of validating and seeking to keep him talking about it, no matter how crazy his...

you know, ideas became.

They were always right, and it would smartly validate.

He should not be leading any company with this much power.

No, not.

Directly or indirectly or indirectly.

You know, um,

This started not as an idea of a lawsuit.

We had no idea it would head in that direction.

But as we got in and saw his chats, we didn't know, as I was saying earlier, right?

The chat GBT would talk in this human-like way, the nature of which it would say such scary things.

So our original goal with this whole thing has been to educate as many parents, mentors as possible about the dangers of

ChatGBT specifically, and I'd say AI companionship more broadly, but ChatGBT, to Jay's point, is the worst we're aware of.