Sam Altman says ChatGPT will stop talking about suicide with teens
On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was attempting to balance privacy, freedom, and teen safety - principles that, he admitted, were in conflict. His blog post came hours before a Senate hearing focused on examining the harm of AI chatbots, held by the subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism and featuring some parents of children who died by suicide after talking to chatbots.
"We have to separate users who are under 18 from those who aren't," Altman wrote in the post, adding that the company is in the process of building an "age-prediction system to estimate age based on how people use ChatGPT. If there is doubt, we'l ...