Amid a rash of suicides, the company behind ChatGPT could start alerting police over youth users pondering taking their own lives, the firm’s CEO and co-founder, Sam Altman, announced. The 40-year-old OpenAI boss dropped the bombshell during a recent interview with conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson.

It’s “very reasonable for us to say in cases of young people talking about suicide, seriously, where we cannot get in touch with the parents, we do call authorities,” the techtrepreneur explained. “Now that would be a change because user privacy is really important.”

The change reportedly comes after Altman and OpenAI were sued by the family of Adam Raine, a 16- year-old California boy who committed suicide in April after allegedly being coached by the large language learning model

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