The Higginbotham family previously said that the 20-year-old went missing after an argument over artificial intelligence during a family trip and feared he could have been “emotionally distressed.”
His mother said that her son was last known to have entered the mountainous forest area near Yamashina, Kyoto, where there are water sources but limited food.
So what happened?
I don’t think he decided to end it all over AI and his mothers use of ChatGPT. Makes more sense that he slipped and either broke something or fell in a body of water and drowned.
Either way, horrible way to go at such a young age.
I don’t think he decided to end it all over AI
It’s hard to know what’s going on in someone’s life. That is, the proximate cause of him storming off might have been that argument, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t have other things creating pressure.



