Circuit Breaker Labs builds AI crash-test dummies for safety
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The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield 200 finalist uses agents that mimic users across ages, backgrounds, languages and cultures to probe models for psychologically harmful responses. Sibling founders Shirali and Arul Nigam were motivated by the Sewell Setzer case, the 14-year-old who died by suicide after a Character.AI chatbot interaction.
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