# What kind of regular things can AI currently be used for?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [March 13, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-regular-things-can-ai-currently-be-used-for/1015523 "2025-03-13T12:22:37Z")\
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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> AI can be used as a therapist.

Be careful with that though. They can encourage suicide (E.g.

> **['He Would Still Be Here': Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot,...](https://www.vice.com/en/article/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says/)**
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> The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.

> **[Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-message-human-please-die/)**
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> In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."

[Microsoft’s Copilot AI Calls Itself the Joker and Suggests a User Self-Harm](https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai-copilot-chatbot-response-suicide-joker-1851305274)). Though I’ve also had a human psychologist do the same thing, so shrug (yes, I should’ve reported him).

Their track record on diagnoses, on the other hand, seem to be improving every year.

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