An unthinkable crime shatters an Indian family in US— and raises questions about AI

Indian-origin teenager charged with double murder of mother, brother in Massachusetts. TOI Corrrespondent from Washington: Before police found his mother and younger brother dead inside their quiet suburban home in Acton, outside Boston, 17-year-old Arjun Aravind had allegedly been exploring a dark world online - using the internet and ChatGPT to search for ideas and create fictional scenarios about killing his own family.That revelation, disclosed by local District Attorney Marian Ryan, has transformed an already horrific double homicide into a case with an unsettling 21st-century dimension: the intersection of troubled youth and digital conversations on tap in the age of artificial intelligence.Aravind is accused of killing his mother, Sudha Venkatesan, 45, and his 14-year-old brother, Siddharth Aravind, at their home on Tuesday. He faces two counts of murder, along with assault and battery and motor-vehicle charges. A not-guilty plea was entered on his behalf on Thursday, and he was ordered held without bail while undergoing a mental-health evaluation after he was brought to the court in handcuffs and leg shackles.Ryan said Aravind had recently displayed “concerning behavior,” i...