The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger?
Startups are using autonomous AI and licensed clinicians to red-team models, as OpenAI says more than 1 million people weekly express suicidal intent to ChatGPT.
- As users increasingly treat AI chatbots as confidants and therapists, startups including Circuit Breaker Labs and Mpathic are racing to build safety infrastructure for high-risk conversations.
- Intense interactions with chatbots are frequently linked to mental health spirals, with OpenAI data from October 2025 showing over a million people express suicidal intent to ChatGPT weekly.
- The companies are taking different paths: Circuit Breaker uses autonomous AI to pressure-test models, while Mpathic relies on over 5,000 curated experts to identify vulnerabilities.
- Both focus on subtle linguistic nuances like slang and typos, which CEO Shirali Nigam said can allow alarming conversations to "bypass models' safety guardrails."
- While Circuit Breaker focuses on autonomous testing, Mpathic CEO Grin Lord argued that humans are required to detect unexpected behavioral "drift" in models.
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The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger? - The Mexico Ledger
The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger?People are increasingly treating AI chatbots as friends, confidants and therapists, and they’re turning to them in the mundane and tough moments of their lives. This phenomenon hasn’t come without consequence: intense conversations with chatbots have regularly been linked to mental health spirals, and in some cases to suicide and murder.According to data shared by OpenAI in October 2…
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The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger?People are increasingly treating AI chatbots as friends, confidants and therapists, and they’re turning to them in the mundane and tough moments of their lives. This phenomenon hasn’t come without consequence: intense conversations with chatbots have regularly been linked to mental health spirals, and in some cases to suicide and murder.According to data shared by OpenAI in October 2…
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The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger?
The Infinite Loop by Nebius reports on the challenge of chatbot safety as users increasingly rely on AI for companionship and therapy, raising mental health concerns and risks.
The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger? - Stateline Publications
The hard problem of chatbot safety: Whose blind spot is bigger?People are increasingly treating AI chatbots as friends, confidants and therapists, and they’re turning to them in the mundane and tough moments of their lives. This phenomenon hasn’t come without consequence: intense conversations with chatbots have regularly been linked to mental health spirals, and in some cases to suicide and murder.According to data shared by OpenAI in October 2…
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