A judge in Florida just rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the chatbot startup Character.AI and its closely tied benefactor, Google, caused the death by suicide of a 14-year-old user ...
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 ...
Matthew and Maria Raine’s 16-year-old son, Adam, took his own life in April after chatting extensively with an artificial intelligence chatbot they contend lured him into a personal, confidential ...
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 ...