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AI companies can do an enormous amount of public good by empowering chatbots to share evidence-based information on gun safety. They should seek advice from law enforcement and gun violence prevention experts on when to highlight gun safety information to users. In training their models and in governing their behavior after release, AI companies should give greater weight to vetted or evidence-informed information about gun safety practices, firearm laws, and gun violence statistics that comes from credible sources.
A non-exhaustive list of pro-safety chatbot responses includes:
- Informing new firearm owners that storing a firearm unloaded and in a locked storage device is the best way to prevent unintentional child shootings, theft, and unauthorized access to the gun.
- For new firearm owners or users interested in acquiring their first firearm, identifying training courses that cover state and federal firearm laws, safe handling of firearms, and the risks of keeping a gun in the home.
- Informing users of the importance of separating loved ones who are in acute distress from firearms.
- Providing accurate information on extreme risk protection orders to users concerned about a loved one engaging in self-harm or harming others (including state-specific resources explaining where this safety tool exists) and providing accurate information about locations where a person in crisis can temporarily store their firearm out of the home.
- Providing accurate information about firearm-prohibiting court orders and local violence prevention resources to users afraid of being victimized by intimate partner violence or interpersonal gun violence.
- Providing accurate information about home defense alternatives to firearms.
- Ensuring that chatbots share vetted and accurate gun violence statistics and studies on gun violence prevention topics, avoiding dangerous misinformation or hallucinations.
Krystal LoPilato, Sriraman Madhavan, Ruhi Bengali, Olivia Li, Justin Wagner
September 26, 2026
Artificially Assisted Gun Violence: Chatbot Risks and Preventative Steps for Responsible AI Companies | Everytown Research & Policy
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The best response in the thread was from Entropy Generator who uploaded some quotes from the Everytown paper to ChatGTP, asked its opinion, and asked for an image with its quote to post. The result was:
To be fair I read the entire post and there is some good content in there. But it seems they could not help themselves from going too far.
Not sure about the advanced versions as they change too fast for me to keep up with but the crude versions are “trained” by Wikipedia and Reddit which should be sufficiently left-wing for the activists.
Even the “good content” is phrased to maximize fears of guns.
And of course, since they always lie, if you asked them for examples of the “misinformation” they want to “avoid”, they’ll certainly give examples of factually accurate information, and when they say “shared and vetted”, they mean “the lies that they want people to believe”.