Ep. 280 - Live From Comicpalooza! Killer Chatbot?: A.I. & The Murder of Margaux Whittemore

Send us Fan Mail(Audio is pretty good!) In February 2025, 32-year-old Margaux Whittemore traveled to Maine with her husband, Samuel, to visit her mother-in-law. She wouldn’t make it back home. Investigators soon learned that Samuel Whittemore was having a strange conversation with an AI chatbot, which led him to attack his wife and mother. Episode Source List:https://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/taxonomy/term/1549https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12805049/https://nam.edu/news-and-insights/what-is-ai-psychosis/https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2025.10.10.5https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09339 https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/17/central-maine/central-maine-police-courts/readfield-maine-giles-road-homicide-samuel-whittemore-not-criminally-responsible-chat-gpt-delusions/ https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/02/21/central-maine/belfast-man-led-globe-trotting-life-with-wife-he-allegedly-killed/ https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-man-accused-of-using-fire-poker-in-fatal-attack-on-wife-maine-giles-road-family-parents-mother-samuel-whittemore https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/public-safety/family-mourns-margaux-whittemore-plans-bring-her-home-france/97-91cf1f40-102d-4f4d-baf5-7a06ddd5ed3c https://abc13.com/post/margaux-whittemore-death-french-woman-houston-ties-allegedly-murdered-husband-belfast-maine/15961607/ https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-man-not-criminally-responsible-killing-wife-trying-kill-mother/69071795 https://www.thinkbrg.com/insights/publications/nervous-system-eliza-effect/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260505-how-to-use-ai-without-turning-your-brain-to-mush https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/would-you-entrust-a-childs-life-to-a-chatbot-thats-what-happens-every-day-that-we-fail-to-regulate-ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ml2xwyMko https://www.instagram.com/margauxn/