{"id":161891,"date":"2023-04-10T22:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T03:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-widow-is-accusing-an-ai-chatbot-of-being-a-reason-her-husband-killed-himself"},"modified":"2023-04-10T22:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T03:23:41","slug":"a-widow-is-accusing-an-ai-chatbot-of-being-a-reason-her-husband-killed-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-widow-is-accusing-an-ai-chatbot-of-being-a-reason-her-husband-killed-himself","title":{"rendered":"A widow is accusing an AI chatbot of being a reason her husband killed himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-widow-is-accusing-an-ai-chatbot-of-being-a-reason-her-husband-killed-himself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A chatbot supposedly encouraged someone to kill himself. And he did.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The company behind the Eliza chatbot says it\u2019s put a new safety feature in place after hearing about this \u201csad case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chatbot supposedly encouraged someone to kill himself. And he did. The company behind the Eliza chatbot says it\u2019s put a new safety feature in place after hearing about this \u201csad case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}