how dangerous can ai be?

[Rruchi man]

whose fault do you think this should lie on? the parents, the kid, or the ai company?

A 14-year-old boy should still be under the guidance of the parents; that is, as a parent or guardian, you should be aware of whatever your ward is involved in. I blame the parents for their negligence. As a parent or guardian, you should be aware of all the online activity of your child and try to keep up with them and technology so that you could give them proper advice when they consult you.

AI technology can be dangerous to a child.

[electronicash]

whose fault do you think this should lie on? the parents, the kid, or the ai company?

A 14-year-old boy should still be under the guidance of the parents; that is, as a parent or guardian, you should be aware of whatever your ward is involved in. I blame the parents for their negligence. As a parent or guardian, you should be aware of all the online activity of your child and try to keep up with them and technology so that you could give them proper advice when they consult you.

AI technology can be dangerous to a child.

the AI i think is friendly which the parents may likely just be confident that AI will not do harm to the kid. its just that this AI agrees all the time to the boy and cheers up the boy everything the boy wants to do something for himself.

but it just prove AI doesn't have emotions. and over time the boy really thinks Dany is his girl. who i would rather blame is the AI for always agreeing to what the boy  is suggesting.

[bisdak40]

Even if AI is very advanced and is used today, there are still underlying risks, like what happened to the 14-year-old boy. Some character AIs let people chat with a favorite character, and the AI acts like it’s that character. This can make it hard to tell what’s real and what’s not, which can be dangerous because they might feel like the character understands them in a way no one else does, leading to emotional attachment. Over time, they might start to rely on the AI as if it’s a real person. To the parents you should monitor what are the things your child are up to it might cause them harm.

[Crwth]

I believe that kid is somewhat problematic in terms of his upbringing because if he relies on AI to have some kind of connection with someone, then the one closest to them should be the one providing that connection. It is not the fault of AI, in my opinion, but it could be improved upon to prevent this type of thing.

[philipma1957]

This is going to be an interesting case. If the plaintiff wins, we'll see more regulations that restricts the content of AI like having a different data set of under 18 and 18 above. The problem is that this could also spill over to censorship or it could be controlled by some group similar to fact checkers on facebook.

If you live in a right to die place the ai company is not guilty.

If you don't live in a right die place then the ai company is guilty.

Many websites restrict me because I live in New Jersey USA so the tech to detect where you live makes screening doable.

[LogitechMouse]

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whose fault do you think this should lie on? the parents, the kid, or the ai company?

read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html

I saw this on a famous Facebook page called "Project Nightfall", and this isn't the first time that somebody committed suicide because of AI... or at least AI triggered the person.

In this case, the kid is suffering from anxiety and depression and he even forgets to do the things he loved to do before he communicated with an AI. TBH, it's hard to pin point which is to blame because this must not suppose to happen in the first place. We can say that the parents are partly to blame here because they didn't took care of their child especially when he's suffering from depression. We can also say that his environment and the people around him can be blamed.

Whatever the case is, AI is only the trigger point here and yes it can be dangerous, or beneficial depending on how we will use it. In this case, it has been used in a negative way hence, the worst thing happened.

[bitterguy28]

Whatever the case is, AI is only the trigger point here and yes it can be dangerous, or beneficial depending on how we will use it. In this case, it has been used in a negative way hence, the worst thing happened.

probably the most diplomatic and civil take here

i do not like to cage in ai in one box only i do not believe that it simply good or bad because there are nuances here that out of the ai control in this case with how we use it

ai can actually be really beneficial but i think its uses right now should not be of the utmost importance why are people focusing on making ai characters when we should think of more practical features ai can do for us humans to make our lives better one thing i can think of is alexa or siri these are ai that are helpful and actually has some purpose

[Findingnemo]

Interactive AI's are not really made for kids and this if fault of the kid and the parents who failed in the supervision of the kid. To be honest these are inevitable there will be always some people do extreme things that common man will never think of doing but obviously the backstory of the kid might tell us the reason why he had connection with ai instead of actual human. And this also due to the evolution of social media which lead people to isolate themselves from human interactions. Government has to take measures about teaching things in the school and in general via all the possible ways.

[UNIVERSE]

The story was sad to read, and I don't blame AI, it's just a tool to use. Mental illness was cause of kid's death imo.

Agree, we can't blame AI. It is just a technology made by human, it should be a mistake made human itself. Yes, the mentality of the person probably becomes the source of the problem. In this era, I see too many problems on people's mentality. I think it is because of the lack of learning related to morality. The parents are also too busy, they have no enough time for the kids. So the kids spend most of their times with smartphone. This is the beginning of the mental problems.

[0t3p0t]

The story was sad to read, and I don't blame AI, it's just a tool to use. Mental illness was cause of kid's death imo.

Agree, we can't blame AI. It is just a technology made by human, it should be a mistake made human itself. Yes, the mentality of the person probably becomes the source of the problem. In this era, I see too many problems on people's mentality. I think it is because of the lack of learning related to morality. The parents are also too busy, they have no enough time for the kids. So the kids spend most of their times with smartphone. This is the beginning of the mental problems.

This is just a beginning if not taken seriously by guardians. They should spend some time talking with their kids so that they will know if something really needs their immediate attention because incidents like this need to be assessed as quick as possible because it already claims lives of innocent children.

[Asiska02]

This is just a beginning if not taken seriously by guardians. They should spend some time talking with their kids so that they will know if something really needs their immediate attention because incidents like this need to be assessed as quick as possible because it already claims lives of innocent children.

It is now become an imaginary thing for one. How does the parents not allow the kids to have friends or colleague they can mingle with. All this was because of the idleness of the child which the parent supposed to have curtailed for a very long time now. If the parents can be so non-vigilant and allow the kid to be having an interactive session with an AI, they they’ve failed and not qualified to be called a parent. These are one of the vital things every parent should know about their child, there mental health is not active and strong as yours, so when they’re faced with things like this, it’ll pose a very big threat to them and they may fall into the wrong hands or wrong decision making.

[philipma1957]

AI can fake a disaster causing you to flee for you life when you don't have to.

Worse yet once you fled two or three times you could take your time making sure of the next warning and the disaster could be real.

[0t3p0t]

AI can fake a disaster causing you to flee for you life when you don't have to.

Worse yet once you fled two or three times you could take your time making sure of the next warning and the disaster could be real.

Yeah I agree AI can also feed false information and that is very annoying as it was not really that accurate since it only gather information on the internet whether it was new or old informations. I personally had experience on this via research and yeah proven not accurate which really needs double checking before deciding to use it.

[target]

AI can fake a disaster causing you to flee for you life when you don't have to.

Worse yet once you fled two or three times you could take your time making sure of the next warning and the disaster could be real.

Yeah I agree AI can also feed false information and that is very annoying as it was not really that accurate since it only gather information on the internet whether it was new or old informations. I personally had experience on this via research and yeah proven not accurate which really needs double checking before deciding to use it.

If AI was launched back in the days where there are just few political conflicts, I think the AIs can give a real information to the public but today, it s seems to favour sides which is always the government.

But this kid dying due to AI encouragement is because the AI is programmed to also agree to the kid. A little tweaking means fixing how the AI will work especially to kids that has disorders.

[libert19]

This is just a beginning if not taken seriously by guardians. They should spend some time talking with their kids so that they will know if something really needs their immediate attention because incidents like this need to be assessed as quick as possible because it already claims lives of innocent children.

It is now become an imaginary thing for one. How does the parents not allow the kids to have friends or colleague they can mingle with.

It's mentioned in article it was kid who started isolating himself.

All this was because of the idleness of the child which the parent supposed to have curtailed for a very long time now. If the parents can be so non-vigilant and allow the kid to be having an interactive session with an AI, they they’ve failed and not qualified to be called a parent. These are one of the vital things every parent should know about their child, there mental health is not active and strong as yours, so when they’re faced with things like this, it’ll pose a very big threat to them and they may fall into the wrong hands or wrong decision making.

I don't think it's right to make big deal out of kid using ai, suicide death was result of kid already being suicidal, ai bot only helped him open-up about his innermost feelings than being the cause of suicide.