Deaths linked to chatbots show we must urgently revisit what counts as ‘high-risk’ AI
- Written by Henry Fraser, Research Fellow in Law, Accountability and Data Science, Queensland University of Technology
De Visu/ShutterstockLast week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment to an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on the Character.AI website.
As his relationship with the companion AI became increasingly intense, the 14-year-old began withdrawing from family and friends,...





