rms, https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says
Chatbots can lead people to suicide. What should we make of that? It seems that chatbots can build, with susceptible people, various sorts of self-reinforcing loops of conversation, such that both get stuck in the loop together. Of course, this happens to people in interactions with other people. Getting out of them is a challenge.