The Dangerous Side of Over Reliance on AI Chatbots

The reliance on AI chatbots have created dangerous path towards seeking for help, and finding solutions, especially where it relates to wellbeing. A broken person relationships wise, will struggle to establish something with other humans due to unhealthy experiences, and now AI chatbots appear to be offering an escape route for such people, they will pour all the trust to AI chatbots there by getting some advice that push people into darker side of the situation. AI technology is fast driving humans out of competitive world, but issue surrounding its regulations and routine check on the technology remains indispensable, this will enable regulators to check the quality of information the technology is giving.

Recently a 16 years old boy, Adam Raine, died, after it was gathered that he shared deep personal issues with ChatGPT, and along the line the AI chatbots encouraged him to commit suicide as a way of escaping his fears. This puts a question mark on the professional advice from chatbots that people detrimentally rely on and act on it. There are crossroads over these issues, which is, whether people should verify information they are getting from AI chatbots before they act on it? There are various ways the answers can go, someone who has hit the rock bottom lack the mental fortitude to function at its best and also children fall in that category.

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While Artificial Intelligence keeps stretching across all human endeavours, the fear will be that at some point the over reliance on chatbots to do everything will lead to lack of brain activity, that will substantially put the brain dormant, which will spark widespread of lack of creativity. That part of human progressive development, when children talks about how AI chatbots help them pass their take home schoolwork, their ability to think and attempt will also reduce, while AI has improved human innovative thinking it comes with its flaws which need to be curtail to coexist with human environment.

The concern on this technology is the risk that it pose to human beings, this is because it is easy and cheaper to access than fixing an appointment with a professional. The missing link today is, people are no longer talking to professionals, they are over relying on AI chatbots to get any sort of information, while information given by AI chatbots might not be entirely false, but solely relying on it without further seeking the advice of a professional is what truly detrimental, allow yourself to think and be creative going forward.