One Million People Weekly Use ChatGPT To Discuss Suicide

A startling new report from OpenAI has quantified the profound role its AI is playing in users’ personal lives, revealing that over one million people each week turn to ChatGPT with conversations that include explicit indicators of suicidal intent. This figure, representing 0.15 percent of its weekly active users, exposes a massive, unplanned social experiment unfolding in real-time. For the first time in history, immense numbers of people are regularly confiding their most acute psychological struggles not to a human, but to a machine intelligence system. The increased parameters around AI for crisis support creates a need for regulation and monumental responsibility that the company is still learning to navigate.