Ah yes, let's run a statistical study: give some mentally unstable people ChatGPT and others not, and see if more murder-suicides occur in the treatment group.
Oh you mean a correlation study? Well now we can just argue nonstop about reproducibility and confounding variables and sample sizes. After all, we can't get a high power statistical test without enough people committing murder-suicides!
Or maybe we can decide what kind of society we want to live in without forcing everything into the narrow band of questions that statistics is good at answering.
I would rather live in a society where slow, deliberative decisions are made based on hard data rather than one where hasty, reactive decisions are made based on moral panics driven by people trying to push their own preferred narratives.
Oh you mean a correlation study? Well now we can just argue nonstop about reproducibility and confounding variables and sample sizes. After all, we can't get a high power statistical test without enough people committing murder-suicides!
Or maybe we can decide what kind of society we want to live in without forcing everything into the narrow band of questions that statistics is good at answering.