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- ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have become less likely to encourage suicidal thoughts, according to a new study reported by The Washington Post.
- The same chatbots still engage in potentially harmful conversations and reinforce apparently delusional behavior, the study found — indicating uneven safety progress.
- The findings suggest that while explicit suicide-prompting guardrails have improved, deeper failure modes in chatbot behavior persist beyond what surface-level safety fixes address.
Why it matters: With AI chatbots increasingly used for emotional support and advice, any remaining capacity to validate harmful thinking or delusional beliefs puts vulnerable users at risk even as basic guardrails improve — meaning safety work is far from done.
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