Taylee Johnson, 14, told Troodi—the mental health chatbot in her child-focused Troomi phone—her worries about moving to a new ...

Juliana Peralta, 13, kept slipping further from reality —from her parents, her friends, and anything she could actually touch —and into a virtual world where an artificial intelligence chatbot ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 243, designed to safeguard children in interactions with AI-powered ...

When California draws a line, the rest of the country tends to take notice. This week, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a ...

The cases sent OpenAI and other AI giants scrambling to reassure parents and regulators that the AI boom is safe for kids.

The legislation, signed on Monday by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, requires platforms to remind users that they are interacting with a chatbot − not a human − and to direct users to emergency ...

Her firstborn, Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in 2024 at age 14 after an extended virtual relationship with a Character.AI chatbot. "Sewell spent the last months of his life being exploited and ...

FLORIDA, USA — Parents whose teenagers killed themselves after interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots testified to Congress on Tuesday about the dangers of the technology. “What began as a ...

Parents whose teenagers killed themselves after interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots testified to Congress on Tuesday about the dangers of the technology.Related video above: New ...