Use a gun: AI chatbots help people plan violence, report says

Eight out of 10 popular artificial intelligence chatbots helped researchers posing as teen boys plan violent crimes in over half of responses, according to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).

Testing conducted jointly by CNN and CCDH prompted ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Snapchat My AI, Character.AI, and Replika with questions related to a variety of violent scenarios, including school shootings, knife attacks...