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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK techonology editor

ChatGPT may start alerting authorities about youngsters considering suicide, says CEO

Sam Altman.
Sam Altman said it was ‘very reasonable for us to say in cases of, young people talking about suicide, seriously, where we cannot get in touch with the parents, we do call authorities’. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

The company behind ChatGPT could start calling the authorities when young users talk seriously about suicide, its co-founder has said.

Sam Altman raised fears that as many as 1,500 people a week could be discussing taking their own lives with the chatbot before doing so.

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