This is also a problem for search engines.

A problem that while not solved has been somewhat mitigated by including suicide prevention resources at the top of search results.

This is a bare minimum AI can’t meet, and in conversation with AI vulnerable people can get more than just information, there are confirmed cases of the AI encouraging harmful behaviors up to and including suicide.

It will take another five seconds to find the same info using the web.

good. every additional hurdle between a suicidal person and the actual act saves lives.

Unless you also think we should censor the entire web and make it illegal to have any information about things that can hurt people, like knives, guns, stress, partners, cars....

this isn’t a slippery slope. we can land on a reasonable middle ground.

People will not be stopped suiciding because a chat bot doesnt tell them the best way, unfortunately.

you don’t know that. maybe some will.

the general trend i get from your comment is you’re thinking in very black and white terms. the world doesn’t operate on all or nothing rules. there is always a balance between safety and practicality.