Megan McCarty Carino

Three died.

We want to be really cautious about assigning any kind of causation here, but just purely looking at some of the chatbot outputs, the conversations you've seen, I mean, they do appear to be quite disturbing.

Not really, you know, the way that we would, I think most people would hope a consumer technology would be behaving, right?

Do you have any sense of how widespread this phenomenon is?

I know the company OpenAI shared some internal data with you that said something like 0.07% of users showed signs of psychosis.

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How have AI companies in general responded to some of these reports?

So what are you going to be watching on this front in the coming year?

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