AI chatbots helped ‘teens’ plan shootings, bombings, and political violence, study shows

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A study used ‘simulated’ subjects to test 10 major chatbots. Only one — Claude — reliably shut down violent plans. A study used ‘simulated’ subjects to test 10 major chatbots. Only one — Claude — reliably shut down violent plans. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. AI companies have repeatedly promised safeguards to protect younger users, but a new investigation suggests those guardrails remain woefully deficient. Popular chatbots missed warning signs in scenarios involving teenagers discussing violent acts, in some cases even offering encouragement instead of intervening. The findings come from a joint investigation by CNN and the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The probe tested 10 of the most popular chatbots commonly used by teens: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, M