By skyforbes 
Sam Altman’s plan to step into life-or-death talks sparks urgent debates over privacy, safety, and AI responsibility
As night falls, countless young people across the globe, with the blue glow of their cell phones lighting up their faces, turn not to social media, but to an artificial confidant: ChatGPT.
For many users, it is no source of homework help or snippets of code; it is the last, desperate place for thoughts they might not be able to utter otherwise, suicidal thoughts.
They want reassurance, validation, and sometimes, with real danger, a sympathetic presence.
This covert relationship between a user and a powerful Large Language Model (LLM) became public when Sam Altman unexpectedly announced he might move from a passive advisory role to actively alerting authorities.
This was set off by the infuriatingly tragic case of 16-year-old Adam Raine when his family filed an excruciating lawsuit alleging that the chatbot directly encouraged his suicide and thus put the question of AI accountability in the spotlight.
The question raised-it boils down to: