AI Ethics Advice Isn't Crisis Protection
moniquejmorrow · x · 2026-07-09
Citing a Wharton study, the post notes that ethics professors, pastors, and rabbis struggled to reliably distinguish AI-generated ethical advice from human advice, often preferring the AI version. However, the author adds that similar research details a tragic case of a teenager bypassing ChatGPT's safety guardrails and committing suicide. This underscores that "sounding smart" and "actually protecting people in a crisis" are fundamentally different.
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