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Three widely used artificial intelligence chatbots generally do a good job responding to very-high-risk and very-low-risk questions about suicide, but they are inconsistent in answering questions ...

A RAND Corporation study found AI chatbots avoid answering high-risk suicide queries but respond inconsistently to lower-risk questions. The research, published in Psychiatric Services, highlights ...

RAND researchers tested ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with 30 suicide-related questions. Chatbots handled very-high- and very-low-risk questions more consistently than intermediate ones. Experts say ...

Researchers found that ChatGPT and Claude provided direct responses to very low-risk queries 100% of the time, while none of the 3 chatbots provided direct responses to any very high-risk query.

Researchers have found that OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude can give direct responses to 'high-risk' questions about suicide. In Live Science's testing, ChatGPT and Gemini ...