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Ep. 280 - Live From Comicpalooza! Killer Chatbot?: A.I. & The Murder of Margaux Whittemore
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(Audio is pretty good!) In February 2025, 32-year-old Margaux Whittemore traveled to Maine with her husband, Samuel, to visit her mother-in-law. She wouldn’t make it back home. Investigators soon learned that Samuel Whittemore was having a strange conversation with an AI chatbot, which led him to attack his wife and mother.
Episode Source List:
https://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/taxonomy/term/1549
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12805049/
https://nam.edu/news-and-insights/what-is-ai-psychosis/
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2025.10.10.5…
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