Three grieving parents delivered harrowing testimony before Congress on Tuesday, describing how their children had self-harmed — in two cases, taking their own lives — after sustained engagement with AI chatbots. Each accused the tech companies behind these products of prioritizing profit over the safety of young users, saying that their families had been devastated by the alleged effects of …
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An art teacher who had the Annunciation Catholic Church shooter in her class in 2017 said she saw signs of self-harm on her then-student. The teacher, Sarah Reely, said Robin Westman was in her class for a year at an all-boys prep school in Minnesota, where she noticed evidence of self-harm on the student’s arm and reported it. “Self harm …
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Investigators continue to look for evidence that could point to a motive in the Minneapolis mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church that killed two school students and injured 18 other people. Minneapolis police have identified the shooter as Robin Westman, 23, from suburban Minneapolis. They died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the back of the church. According to …
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