{"id":22145,"date":"2026-02-28T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:37:29","slug":"her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the \u2018most hopeful person\u2019 before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot<\/p>\n<p>On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti \u2013 who had been missing for several hours \u2013 had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48.<\/p>\n<p>Fox couldn\u2019t believe it. Ceccanti had no history of depression, she said, nor was he suicidal \u2013 he was the \u201cmost hopeful person\u201d she had ever known. In fact, according to the witness accounts shared with Fox later, just before Ceccanti jumped, he smiled and yelled: \u201cI\u2019m great!\u201d to the rail yard attendants below when they asked him if he was OK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/28\/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e015a597f37cb58b701ac61902e61284798349db\/0_752_6309_5050\/master\/6309.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=816383557f71d193807216f3fbc86afd\" title=\"Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.\" \/>Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the \u2018most hopeful person\u2019 before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot<br \/>\nOn 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti \u2013 who had been missing for several hours \u2013 had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48.<br \/>\nFox couldn\u2019t believe it. Ceccanti had no history of depression, she said, nor was he suicidal \u2013 he was the \u201cmost hopeful person\u201d she had ever known. In fact, according to the witness accounts shared with Fox later, just before Ceccanti jumped, he smiled and yelled: \u201cI\u2019m great!\u201d to the rail yard attendants below when they asked him if he was OK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the \u2018most hopeful person\u2019 before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti \u2013 who had been missing for several hours \u2013 had jumped from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22146,"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\/22145"}],"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=22145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}