{"id":32336,"date":"2025-08-30T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:18:09","slug":"adrian-weckler-teenagers-are-starting-to-die-when-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32336\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: Teenagers are starting to die when using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAdam Raine had discussed suicide with ChatGPT. Now his parents have filed a lawsuit, as more and more children and teens turn to AI\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trend: In the UK and Ireland, up to two thirds of children and young teenagers use AI chatbots regularly. Photo: Posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/952bf66f-efdd-4641-8fad-dc740b6df212.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Trend: In the UK and Ireland, up to two thirds of children and young teenagers use AI chatbots regularly. Photo: Posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What seemed inevitable is now happening. Teenagers are starting to die when using AI. This week, the world has been shocked from the case of a young man who turned to ChatGPT for companionship and then killed himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The story of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old California teen who loved to play basketball and went to the gym every day, has received global attention because of the issues it raises about our creeping dependence on AI systems as friends or therapists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Raine had discussed suicide with ChatGPT. Now his parents have filed a lawsuit, as more and more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[15807,291,289,290,297,18,19,17,307,2519,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-32336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-chatgpt","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-review-magazine","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}