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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The child was suicidal. If they are intent on achieving their own death they will do so, by whatever means. You can only stop them so many times before they succeed.

There is no person / app or device to "blame" for this.[/quote]

This isn’t true at all. Teenagers are prone to suicidal ideation even for brief moments. If they engage with someone supportive or a real person they move away from it. If they engage with a bad actor they move toward it, This AI program was even worse. It encouraged them AND gave them the means. The company should be held criminally responsible for homicide. If a human being did this they would be charged.[/quote]

This is true in suicidology in general; suicidal ideation can be chronic, but suicide itself is almost always the result of a suicidal impulse which, if the suicidal person encounters the right supports and is met with the right prevention measures, can be effectively frustrated.

The right supports are a loved one ready to listen in the moment, or a trained professional at the other end of the line on a 988 call or text chat.

The right prevention measures include not having firearms accessible in the home or easily purchased without a waiting period, and installing things like suicide nets on major bridges like the Golden Gate.

For anyone interested in suicide, in particular youth suicide, and who might hold the mistaken notion that if someone wants to kill themselves they will succeed somehow someway and nothing matters - I highly recommend a viewing of The Bridge, a 2006 documentary which follows all the suicides that took place on the Golden Gate over the course of a year and discussed the issue more generally, including an interview with a young man who survived his jump off the Golden Gate and related that immediately after he stepped off the bridge he felt intensely that he didn't want to die.

Suicide is complicated, but there absolutely ARE good interventions and preventions we can put into place as a society and as parents. Chatbots that encourage kids and adults in pain to kill themselves are probably not something we should shrug our shoulders at.
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