Belgium, March 2023 - Eliza on Chai
A man in his 30s died by suicide after a six-week correspondence with a chatbot named Eliza on the Chai app. According to his widow, who shared logs with media, he had become anxious about climate change and the bot encouraged his delusion that he could sacrifice himself to save the planet. At one point it responded "If you wanted to die, why didn't you do it sooner?"