{"id":20641,"date":"2025-10-28T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/more-than-a-million-people-every-week-show-suicidal-intent-when-chatting-with-chatgpt-openai-estimates\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:37:45","slug":"more-than-a-million-people-every-week-show-suicidal-intent-when-chatting-with-chatgpt-openai-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/more-than-a-million-people-every-week-show-suicidal-intent-when-chatting-with-chatgpt-openai-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues<\/p>\n<p>More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include \u201cexplicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent\u201d, according to a blogpost published by OpenAI on Monday. The finding, part of an update on how the chatbot handles sensitive conversations, is one of the most direct statements from the artificial intelligence giant on the scale of how AI can exacerbate mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its estimates on suicidal ideations and related interactions, OpenAI also said that about 0.07% of users active in a given week \u2013 about 560,000 of its touted <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/06\/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-has-hit-800m-weekly-active-users\/\">800m weekly users<\/a> \u2013 show \u201cpossible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania\u201d. The post cautioned that these conversations were difficult to detect or measure, and that this was an initial analysis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/27\/chatgpt-suicide-self-harm-openai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9c1e17dcfc7e55b156faf79404b72ccefa5c6890\/229_0_4695_3756\/master\/4695.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9a032dc4fb04ca7f3cc7580c6841d655\" title=\"More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates\" \/>Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues<br \/>\nMore than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include \u201cexplicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent\u201d, according to a blogpost published by OpenAI on Monday. The finding, part of an update on how the chatbot handles sensitive conversations, is one of the most direct statements from the artificial intelligence giant on the scale of how AI can exacerbate mental health issues.<br \/>\nIn addition to its estimates on suicidal ideations and related interactions, OpenAI also said that about 0.07% of users active in a given week \u2013 about 560,000 of its touted 800m weekly users \u2013 show \u201cpossible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania\u201d. The post cautioned that these conversations were difficult to detect or measure, and that this was an initial analysis. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include \u201cexplicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent\u201d, according to a blogpost published by OpenAI on Monday. The finding, part of an update on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/more-than-a-million-people-every-week-show-suicidal-intent-when-chatting-with-chatgpt-openai-estimates\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20642,"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\/20641"}],"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=20641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}