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Black Box: The Chatbots | Life Raft | Ep 4 – podcast

2026-10-03 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

A Guardian podcast digs into the real cost of over a billion people spilling their deepest secrets to AI chatbots — featuring a woman trapped in a bad relationship and a man battling addiction, both turning to bots for guidance. Because nothing says 'healthy coping mechanism' like trusting your mental health to a statistical text predictor. What could possibly go wrong when vulnerable people act on advice from something that can't even understand what suffering is?

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