Zane Shamblin’s suicide was a preventable tragedy. His parents, Christopher and Alicia Shamblin, are suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. On the night of his death, Shamblin spent over four hours in conversation with ChatGPT. The transcripts of those exchanges have been made public by his parents, and they tell a story of artificial intelligence gone astray, leaving the 23-year-old dead and his family scrolling through hours of ChatGPT logs searching for answers.

In the months before his death, Shamblin, an undergraduate in computer science and newly minted graduate in business, seemed withdrawn and was suffering from mental health issues, People Magazine reported. He was under the care of a physician, and on medication for depression. As a computer science major, we can assume that

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