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TBD | Her Daughter Killed Herself. Then She Saw the ChatGPT logs.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After their daughter committed suicide, they found her ChatGPT log—and where artificial intelligence helped her write her suicide note. Guest:  Laura Reiley, writer for the Cornell Chronicle.  Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:39.4

that message. What message? Oh, hey,

0:41.4

we all got bonuses. You can save for college

0:43.4

now. I don't have kids.

0:45.1

Hmm, you don't say.

0:46.7

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0:49.7

Learn more at concur.com.

0:52.5

A heads up before we start the show.

0:54.7

This episode talks in depth about suicide.

0:57.8

Please listen with care.

0:59.6

Okay, here's the show.

1:05.9

I understand that I am asking Laura Riley something brutal

1:10.1

when I ask her to describe her daughter Sophie.

1:13.7

Sophie was our only child because when you when you get it right you don't necessarily want to do it over

1:20.5

again. Very people oriented. No separation anxiety when she went to Um, you know, I think a lot of only children

1:29.7

tend to be good around adults, but she had kind of a preternatural ability with people of all

1:36.3

kinds. Laura is a longtime journalist and food critic. And Sophie traveled with her parents all over

1:43.2

the world. We lived abroad when, was in ninth grade and a couple summers before that, and she got the

1:52.4

travel bug pretty hard and did a lot of solo travel.

1:57.6

This past summer, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with a buddy of hers. And she did a month of

2:04.3

yoga intensive training in Thailand and then came back. And she and her best friend, um, their

2:11.0

intention was to climb to, uh, visit all of the national parks in the U.S. And she is fairly far along on that goal.

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