The focus on AI in these articles is reminding me of the focus of SUVs in articles on traffic deaths. In the past, murderers used the internet to look up how to kill people. But the news stories did not lead with the use of the internet. It was a secondary fact. These days, the articles lead with the AI angle as if AI is facilitating the murders. In very rare occasions does AI itself play a role in a death (like when an AI chat tells a suicidal person to kill themselves).
I remember stories blaming AI for a rise in pornography. I replied that’s like blaming a paint brush for bad art.
The AI might interpret that the most logical thing to do is to kill oneself after listening to everything. I’m sure you could talk an AI into saying anything you want to hear.