Controversial Swiss Suicide Pod Gets an AI-Powered Mental Fitness Upgrade
January 21, 2026

(Gizmodo) – There have been many high-profile stories in which chatbots have effectively encouraged and enabled people experiencing mental health crises to kill themselves, which has resulted in several wrongful death lawsuits against the companies responsible for the AI models behind the bots. Now we’ve got the inverse: if you want to use your right to die, you have to convince an AI that you are mentally capable of making such a decision. (Read More)