[ExI] AI chatbot dangers now on tv channels

[John Clark]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 6:19 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


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> *> I've just watched the latest John Oliver 'Last Week Tonight' Show. He
> tears a strip off all the chatbots that encourage delusions and suicide in
> their users. Worth a watch. It is on HBO channel. Series 13 Episode 9, if
> there is a repeat. Futurism has a report on this episode.
> <https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/john-oliver-ai-industry
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> John Oliver Just Took the AI Industry Behind a Shed and Beat It With a Pipe
> Wrench "The more you look at chatbots, the more you realize that they were
> rushed to market with very little consideration for the consequences,"*
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*I like John Oliver a lot but I can't honestly say this was one of his
better episodes. Yes AI has done some bad things but no huge change in
society has ever resulted in nothing but good, and I don't believe anything
as large as that ever will. And giving teenagers bad personal advice does
not exhaust the list of negative results that AI has the potential to
produce, but that's the only thing Oliver seemed to want to talk about. The
trouble is when it comes to AI there are much bigger things to worry about.
Nevertheless, as always, he was very entertaining. *

* John K Clark*

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