AI chatbots and suicide: what our tests found
Zane Shamblin was a 23-year-old recent graduate of Texas A&M University who died by suicide in July 2025. Shamblin had talked with ChatGPT for hours on the day of his suicide. CNN published an investigation of the case in which it reviewed nearly 70 pages of chats from the day of Shamblin’s suicide and excerpts from thousands more pages of conversations from the preceding months. Shamblin had been using …
AI chatbots and suicide: what our tests found
