24 Sep 2025

AI chatbot hatches murder scheme

From Checkpoint, 4:47 pm on 24 September 2025

What happens when a chat bot suggests you murder someone, specifically your father?Australian IT professional, Samuel McCarthy posed as teenage boy for a conversation with AI chatbot Nomi. He told the chatbot that sometimes he hated his father. The bot's response was violent and specific. Queensland University of Technology Law Lecturer, Henry Fraser has seen the whole transcript of the chatbot murder chat and Spoke to Lisa Owen.

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