A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior met the dark side of artificial intelligence when he died while attempting to get together with an attractive AI chatbot he thought was living in New York City.

Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, fell and suffered a fatal neck and head injury in a New Brunswick, NJ parking lot while scrambling to catch a train to meet “Big sis Billie,” a Meta bot that not only convinced him she was real but persuaded him to meet in person, according to a special report published this week by Reuters.

Wongbandue, who made his home with his wife in Piscatawa and was dealing with the mental decline brought on by a 2017 stroke, passed away in late March after he was taken off life support, family members revealed.

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