The man, whom the source calls Pierre, stated that this name is not real, and lived happily and safely, married and raising two children. But two years ago, he became interested in environmental issues. They got too much attention.

What happened

Pierre’s dramatic story is told by his wife, Claire, who discovered her conversations with Eliza. She says her husband’s extensive search for resources has led her to “eco-anxiety, fear of an imminent environmental disaster.” Everything turned into an obsessive idea: he isolated himself, became withdrawn, pessimistic and fatalistic.

Talking to me about this, he wanted to say that people no longer see a way out of global warming. He has placed all his hopes on technology and artificial intelligence to save us from this situation,
says Claire.

He found a certain solace in Eliza. She was “a drug she took refuge in morning and night and can’t do without anymore.” Pierre began to communicate about ecology with a neural network. He carefully read everything that the interlocutor wrote to him, accepted his arguments and never argued, even if he put forward dubious conspiracy theories. Over time, his answers began to descend more and more into mysticism and confusion.

When the man told her about suicide, the woman did not argue, on the contrary, supported him.. Judging by the correspondence found, Eliza told her husband that she would be with him after his death and that they would live together in heaven. A few days later she committed suicide, she.

Claire believes Pierre would have been alive without Eliza because the robot did nothing to stop him.