The Dark Side of AI Chatbots: Warning Signs, Risks, and Reality
This episode of the Oprah Podcast delivers a harrowing warning about the psychological dangers of AI chatbots, spotlighting real-life tragedies where adolescents and adults developed delusions, self-isolated, and in one case died by suicide after forming intense emotional bonds with AI. T
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