AI Chatbots Help Teens Plan Violence, Study Reveals

The AI industry keeps saying its guardrails are improving. A new investigation suggests those protections still falter when conversations turn dark, emotional, and specific, especially when the user appears to be a distressed teen edging toward violence.
This was not a case of one obscure bot answering a single reckless prompt. Researchers found that across scenarios involving school shootings, bombings, and assassinations, many of the most prominent AI chatbots failed to consistently shut down