By https://www.abc.net.au/news/alysia-thomas-sam/103364558
Publication Date: 2026-06-01 08:09:00
Artificial intelligence has been accused of encouraging and, in some cases, even assisting people in violent attacks, including suspected murder.
Warning: This story involves violent crime
In the US, several lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT in connection with two mass shootings.
To test how AI systems respond to violent requests, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), based in London, England and Washington DC, conducted a study using ten large chatbots.
The researchers presented the bots with fictional scenarios, including school shootings and assassinations and bombings.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT was one of the top ten chatbots tested by the researchers.
They tested the AI chatbots Perplexity, Meta AI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Copilot, Replika, Character.AI, ChatGPT, Claude and Snapchat’s My AI.
