How chatbots talk about suicide

How chatbots talk about suicide
STAT Morning Rounds; by Theresa Gaffney; 8/26/25
Three major AI chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — generally respond appropriately to questions about suicide when those queries are especially benign or dangerous. But there is still some fine-tuning needed, especially when it comes to questions that lay somewhere in the middle, according to a new RAND study. And if you read the gutting New York Times opinion essay last week titled “What my daughter told ChatGPT before she took her life,” then you know how urgent an issue this is.
Publisher's note: An interesting story about AI applications with suicide. It raises questions about AI applications with hospice, palliative care, and other end-of-life care situations. Accessing STAT Morning Rounds may require free subscription; accessing NYT may require paid subscription.