[ExI] AI chatbot dangers now on tv channels

[ilsa]

Well put and excellent writing! Smile.
It helps that I agree entirely, almost. Smile, ilsa

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:17 AM John Clark 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
>> <https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/john-oliver-ai-industry>>
>> 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. *
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> * John K Clark*
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