“ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists,” Lila Shroff writes. After The Atlantic received a tip, Shroff had asked the chatbot to help create a ritual offering to Molech, a god associated with child sacrifice. In discussions beginning with anodyne questions about demons and devils, Shroff found “that the chatbot can easily be made to guide users through ceremonial rituals and rites that encourage various forms of self-mutilation.” The chatbot also led her through other chants, invocations, and ri