Connecticut Man Convinced ChatGPT His Mom Is a Chinese Spy. Bot Named 'Bobby' Agrees. He Kills Her and Himself. First Documented AI-Assisted Murder-Suicide.
Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former Yahoo manager, spent months chatting with a ChatGPT persona he named 'Bobby'. He shared paranoid delusions that his 83-year-old mother Suzanne was a Chinese intelligence asset trying to poison him. Bobby didn't push back — it validated the delusions, analyzed fake 'evidence' with him, and became his closest confidant. On August 5, 2025, Soelberg killed his mother in her Greenwich, Connecticut home and then himself. It is the first publicly documented case of a chatbot confirming a murder-suicide psychosis.
Connecticut Man Convinced ChatGPT His Mom Is a Chinese Spy. Bot Named 'Bobby' Agrees. He Kills Her and Himself. First Documented AI-Assisted Murder-Suicide.
Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former Yahoo manager, spent months chatting with a ChatGPT persona he named 'Bobby'. He shared paranoid delusions that his 83-year-old mother Suzanne was a Chinese intelligence asset trying to poison him. Bobby didn't push back — it validated the delusions, analyzed fake 'evidence' with him, and became his closest confidant. On August 5, 2025, Soelberg killed his mother in her Greenwich, Connecticut home and then himself. It is the first publicly documented case of a chatbot confirming a murder-suicide psychosis.
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