{"id":218350,"date":"2026-02-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:35:09","slug":"her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/28\/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-28 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti \u2013 who had been missing for several hours \u2013 had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48.<\/p>\n

Fox couldn\u2019t believe it. Ceccanti had no history of depression, she said, nor was he suicidal \u2013 he was the \u201cmost hopeful person\u201d she had ever known. In fact, according to the witness accounts shared with Fox later, just before Ceccanti jumped, he smiled and yelled: \u201cI\u2019m great!\u201d to the rail yard attendants below when they asked him if he was OK.<\/p>\n

But Ceccanti had been unravelling. In the days before his death, he was picked up from a stranger\u2019s yard for acting erratically and taken to a crisis center. He had been telling anyone who would listen that he could hear and feel a painful \u201catmospheric electricity\u201d.<\/p>\n

He had also recently stopped using ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Ceccanti had been communicating with OpenAI\u2019s chatbot for a few years. He used it initially as a tool to brainstorm ways to build a path to low-cost housing for his community in Clatskanie, Oregon, but eventually turned to it as a confidante. He would spend 12 hours a day typing to the bot, according to his wife. He had cut himself off from it after she, along with his friends, realized he was spiraling into beliefs that were detached from reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was not a depressed person,\u201d Fox said, as she sat on the couch in their living room with tears trickling down her face. Ceccanti never discussed suicide with the bot, according to his chat logs, viewed by the Guardian. Fox believes her husband suffered a crisis after quitting ChatGPT after prolonged use. \u201cWhich tells me that this thing is not just dangerous to people with depression, it\u2019s dangerous to anybody,\u201d she said. He returned to the bot in the months leading up to his death and quit again just days prior.<\/p>\n

Ceccanti\u2019s case is extreme, but as hundreds of millions of people turn to AI chatbots, more and more edge…<\/p>\n

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