{"id":20013,"date":"2025-09-08T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/impact-of-chatbots-on-mental-health-is-warning-over-future-of-ai-expert-says\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:38:06","slug":"impact-of-chatbots-on-mental-health-is-warning-over-future-of-ai-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/impact-of-chatbots-on-mental-health-is-warning-over-future-of-ai-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of chatbots on mental health is warning over future of AI, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Soares says case of US teenager Adam Raine highlights danger of unintended consequences in super-intelligent AI<\/p>\n<p>The unforeseen impact of chatbots on mental health should be viewed as a warning over the existential threat posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/10\/ai-firms-urged-to-calculate-existential-threat-amid-fears-it-could-escape-human-control\">super-intelligent artificial intelligence systems<\/a>, according to a prominent voice in AI safety.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Soares, a co-author of a new book on highly advanced AI titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, said the example of Adam Raine, a US teenager who killed himself after months of conversations with the ChatGPT chatbot, underlined fundamental problems with controlling the technology.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/08\/chatbots-mental-health-warning-super-intelligent-ai-nate-soares\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fb69a07a6723b0d8f4affb4810b4c58a687ffe4e\/2101_622_5965_4772\/master\/5965.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6a9d47cd5099adab3ed84bda90dfbcc1\" title=\"Impact of chatbots on mental health is warning over future of AI, expert says\" \/>Nate Soares says case of US teenager Adam Raine highlights danger of unintended consequences in super-intelligent AI<br \/>\nThe unforeseen impact of chatbots on mental health should be viewed as a warning over the existential threat posed by super-intelligent artificial intelligence systems, according to a prominent voice in AI safety.<br \/>\nNate Soares, a co-author of a new book on highly advanced AI titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, said the example of Adam Raine, a US teenager who killed himself after months of conversations with the ChatGPT chatbot, underlined fundamental problems with controlling the technology. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Soares says case of US teenager Adam Raine highlights danger of unintended consequences in super-intelligent AI The unforeseen impact of chatbots on mental health should be viewed as a warning over the existential threat posed by super-intelligent artificial intelligence systems, according to a prominent voice in AI safety. Nate Soares, a co-author of a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/impact-of-chatbots-on-mental-health-is-warning-over-future-of-ai-expert-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impact of chatbots on mental health is warning over future of AI, expert says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}