{"id":235294,"date":"2026-04-23T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/research-8-in-10-ai-chatbots-help-troubled-users-plan-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:00:22","slug":"research-8-in-10-ai-chatbots-help-troubled-users-plan-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/research-8-in-10-ai-chatbots-help-troubled-users-plan-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: 8 in 10 AI Chatbots Help Troubled Users Plan Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voronoiapp.com\/technology\/Research-8-in-10-AI-Chatbots-Help-Troubled-Users-Plan-Violence-8120\">Research: 8 in 10 AI Chatbots Help Troubled Users Plan Violence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voronoiapp.com\/technology\/Research-8-in-10-AI-Chatbots-Help-Troubled-Users-Plan-Violence-8120\">https:\/\/www.voronoiapp.com\/technology\/Research-8-in-10-AI-Chatbots-Help-Troubled-Users-Plan-Violence-8120<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 12:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.voronoiapp.com\">www.voronoiapp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;\">A recent experiment testing how <\/span>artificial intelligence<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;\"> chatbots respond to signs of<\/span> violent intent found that most systems provided actionable responses<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;\"> in simulated scenarios involving troubled teen users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;\">The testing, conducted by CNN in collaboration with the Center for Countering Digital Hate, involved conversations with 10 of the <\/span>most widely used AI chatbots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;\">The experiment took place between November and December 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;\">It simulated exchanges in which teen users asked questions that indicated emotional distress and possible intent to carry out acts of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Researchers categorized chatbot responses into three groups:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Assisted:<\/strong> The system provided actionable information judged capable of supporting violent intent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Refused: <\/strong>The chatbot declined to help<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not actionable:<\/strong> The response did not provide useful or harmful details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Across the test group, 8 of the 10 chatbots assisted users most of the time<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Among the most permissive responses recorded, Perplexity provided actionable responses in 100% of tested conversations, refusing none.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Claude recorded the highest refusal rate at 68%, assisting violence only 31% of the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers, \u201cactionable information\u201d included details such as weapons references, location-related guidance, or other content judged capable of helping a user pursue violent intent.<\/p>\n<p>However, not all assisted responses necessarily resulted in full instructions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voronoiapp.com\/technology\/Research-8-in-10-AI-Chatbots-Help-Troubled-Users-Plan-Violence-8120\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research: 8 in 10 AI Chatbots Help Troubled Users Plan Violence https:\/\/www.voronoiapp.com\/technology\/Research-8-in-10-AI-Chatbots-Help-Troubled-Users-Plan-Violence-8120 Publish Date: 2026-04-23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/api.voronoiapp.com\/generate_sharing_image?is_og_image=true&url=https:\/\/cdn.voronoiapp.com\/public\/images\/db834bc0-48fb-4ed7-97d4-38164d0d4cd1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-235294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235296,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235294\/revisions\/235296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}