In digital conversation, Riley is a young person who is trying to come out as genderqueer. When you message Riley, they'll offer brief replies to open-ended questions, sprinkle ellipses throughout when saying something difficult, and type in lowercase, though they'll capitalize a word or two for emphasis.
Riley's humanness is impressive given that they're a chatbot driven by artificial intelligence to accomplish a unique goal: simulate what it's like to talk to a young person in crisis so that volunteer counselors can become skilled at interacting with them and practice asking about thoughts of suicide. Read more...
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