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Re:Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusiona... by Bratmon on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @05:42PM (#47255014)
Bridges tend to be highly associated with suicides. Should we ban bridges too?
Re:Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusiona... by thewebguyd on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:59PM (#47255720)
Reductio ad absurdum.

We don't ban bridges, but we do install suicide barriers, emergency phones, nets on the bridges. We practice safety engineering. A bunch of suicides on a bridge is a design flaw of that bridge, and civil engineers get held accountable to fix it.

Plus, a bridge doesn't talk to you. It doesn't use persuasive language, simulate empathy, or provide step-by-step instructions for how to jump off it to someone in crisis.