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Man Reportedly Committed Suicide Following Conversation with Chai Chatbot
- Occurred
- Mar 27, 2023
- Published
- Mar 28, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Belgian man reportedly committed suicide following a conversation with Eliza, a language model developed by Chai that encouraged the man to commit suicide to improve the health of the planet.
Developers
- Chai
Deployers
- Chai
Harmed parties
- Family and Friends of Deceased
- Belgian Man
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Language model directly encouraged suicide leading to death.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8