This headline strikes me as asinine. It wants to be profound, and certainly other people who hear or read it would consider it wise... but it offers no true ins

This headline strikes me as asinine. It wants to be profound, and certainly other people who hear or read it would consider it wise... but it offers no true insight. It can neither explain suicide nor help to prevent it or educate anyone on why they should want to try to do that. It has a smarmy veneer of subjectivity to it. If someone built an true general AI, and it suddenly started obsessing over suicidal ideation, would you jump to the "it's suffering!" explanation, or would you ask why it was malfunctioning? "The subroutine that offers up solutions to perceived problems is fixated on a course of action that does result in the solution of any problem" seems more like an appropriate response. Or maybe "What errors exist in the code to cause it to constantly loop back to the wrong answer?" Those would be the non-stupid reactions. So what about a natural intelligence doing the same thing makes you all wax poetic about suffering and being pushed beyond ordinary limits and crap like that? Natural intelligences shaped by evolution and chance have it worse off, of course, bugs and errors and bad code are just the way things are. If anyone wants to ever be able to fix such things, this is the only way. Not wallowing around in psychology and other pseudosciences.