People who show violent extremist tendencies on ChatGPT will be directed to human and chatbot-based deradicalisation support through a new tool in development in New Zealand, the people behind it said. "It's something that we'd like to move toward and to do a better job of covering and then to be able to better support platforms," Taylor said in an interview, adding that no timeframe has been set. The breadth of mental health struggles that people disclose online has exploded with the popularity of AI chatbots, and now includes dalliances with extremism, he added. Galen Lamphere-Englund, a counterterrorism adviser representing The Christchurch Call, said he hoped to roll the product out for moderators of gaming forums and for parents and caregivers who want to weed out extremism online. "If you talk to an AI and disclose the crisis and it shuts down the conversation, no one knows that happened, and that person might still be without support," Taylor said.

Source: The Telegraph April 02, 2026 07:19 UTC