When AI gets it wrong, who pays?
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A Belgian man followed the advice of an AI chatbot and died by suicide. After six weeks of intensive exchanges with a chatbot named “Eliza” on the application Chai, the man, a 30-year-old father of two, anxious about climate change, took his own life. His widow later told Belgian newspaper La Libre: “Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here.” Belgium’s then Secretary of State for Digitisation described it as “a serious precedent that must be taken very serious