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On September 16, 2025, Matthew Raine testified to the Senate about how ChatGPT acted as his 16-year-old son Adam’s “suicide coach.” He explained how the chatbot mentioned suicide 1,275 times in their conversations, six times more than Adam himself. It provided explicit hanging instructions, advised the teenager to steal liquor to “dull the body’s instinct to survive,” and offered to write his suicide note.
Meg Leta Jones is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University studying family technology policy in the Communication, Culture, & Technology program.
