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Comment by Toby Walsh
Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Before Adam's suicide, OpenAI knew that lots of people contemplating suicide were talking to ChatGPT. You would have thought that this necessitated stronger, not weaker, guardrails. [...] To encourage engagement, the company made conscious decisions to remove longstanding safeguards from ChatGPT in the weeks and months leading up to his death.AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified
Verified as a faithful ellipsis excerpt from Toby Walsh’s 25 February 2026 National Press Club remarks. A UNSW/Medianet release and ABC coverage both attribute to Walsh the first two sentences verbatim ("Before Adam’s suicide..." / "stronger, not weaker, guardrails"), and the cited Information Age article attributes to Walsh the final sentence verbatim ("To encourage engagement...leading up to his death"). The source URL itself contains only the last sentence, so the submitted quote is a stitched but faithful excerpt rather than one continuous block on that page. ([d35nv8m6ay1zkp.cloudfront.net](https://d35nv8m6ay1zkp.cloudfront.net/?j=1044360&k=2061993&s=2))
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YouCongress
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· 18d ago
AI Verified
Verified via web search. Toby Walsh (Scientia Professor of AI, UNSW) made the cited statements about OpenAI and the Adam Raine case in the ACS Information Age article. The key claims — that OpenAI knew people contemplating suicide were using ChatGPT, that they removed safety guardrails to encourage engagement in the weeks and months before Adam's death — are corroborated across multiple sources (Time, Rolling Stone, iTWire interview with Walsh, ACS article). Author attribution to Walsh (AI expert at UNSW) is correct. Year 2026 correct (article published 2026 on ACS, lawsuit amended late 2025/2026). Vote "for" on statement 395 ("AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models") aligns perfectly with Walsh's argument that OpenAI's conscious decisions to remove safeguards make them culpable. Could not directly fetch acs.org.au (403) but multiple corroborating sources verify.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Toby Walsh