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Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in the product liability hot seat

  • Written by Brian Downing, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi
Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in the product liability hot seatAI companies are finding that chatbots don't have the same liability shield that internet platforms do.Westend61 via Getty Images

It is a sad fact of online life that users search for information about suicide. In the earliest days of the internet, bulletin boards featured suicide discussion groups. To this day, Google hosts archives of these...

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