Man Dies After Being Seduced By A.I.
Boomer & Gio
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4.2 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I came across a story here that this morning that I haven't been able to stop thinking about since I read it. And it is a sad story. It's sad. But it's, I mean, it's... Why are you bringing a sad story? Because it's so 20, 25 and fascinating to me in like the world we live in now that I wanted to bring this to you. Because you're also an old man technology guy. So this sort of kind of falls into that category, but it's, I mean, it is tragic. |
| 0:26.2 | But, all right, I'll just read you the article, all right? |
| 0:29.9 | Okay. |
| 0:32.8 | A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior died while trying to meet a flirtatious AI chatbot that he believed was a real woman living in New York City. |
| 0:44.7 | Thangbu Wangbadu, 76, fatally injured his neck and head after falling in a New Brunswick parking lot while rushing to catch a train to meet Big Sis Billy, |
| 0:56.1 | a generative Metabot that not only convinced him she was real, |
| 1:01.1 | but persuaded him to meet in person. |
| 1:05.5 | Where were they meeting? |
| 1:07.6 | So I guess Big Sis Billy gave some sort of generic address of like one, two, three, main street apartment A or something. |
| 1:18.4 | And Thongbu, Wang Badoo decided to go to the one like in Queens, I guess. |
| 1:26.6 | Was it the Queens one that he wanted to go to? |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, there's an address in Queens that matches that. |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | So. |
| 1:33.9 | And what's at that address right now? |
| 1:38.8 | Nobody knows. |
| 1:39.7 | Nobody knows, you know? |
| 1:42.2 | So they're blaming, obviously, the bot for setting up the meeting. |
| 1:49.7 | Right. |
| 1:50.1 | But what about Thangbu? |
| 1:51.6 | I mean, Thangbu was trying to get on a train. |
| 1:55.7 | Yeah, but he's not of sound mind, though, you know? |
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