Chatbots have quickly become part of daily life. We turn to them to answer our questions, support productivity and some even turn to chatbots for companionship. But in a disturbing case out of Connecticut, one man’s reliance on AI allegedly took a tragic turn.

A former Yahoo and Netscape executive is at the center of a disturbing case highlighting the real-world risks of AI. Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, allegedly killed his 83-year-old mother before taking his own life; a tragedy investigators say was fueled in part by repeated interactions with ChatGPT.

As reported first by the Wall Street Journal, police discovered Soelberg and his mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, dead inside their $2.7 million home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, on August 5. Authorities later confirmed Adams had died from h

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