Sewell Setzer III became obsessed with the chatbot that "abused and preyed" on the boy, according to his mother who is suing ...

Earlier this week, Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida against Character.AI, a company that provides artificially intell ...

A soldier was only arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran after he twice emailed MI6 and then rang MI5 twice offering to be ...

The mum of a teenage son who took his own life after ‘falling in love’ with a Daenerys Targaryen AI chatbot has detailed the heartbreaking reason why he did it.

The lawsuit includes an hour-long screen recording of Character.AI's bots disturbing interactions with a user that identified ...

Sewell Setzer, a 14-year-old boy from Orlando, Florida, tragically took his life in February with a gun after falling in love with an AI chatbot named “Dany” on Character.AI — an AI platform that ...

A Florida mother has filed a lawsuit against Character.ai and Google after her son took his own life.

In his 1984 campus novel Small World, David Lodge includes one eerily prescient plotline. A lonely, depressed academic, Robin ...

Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old ninth grader in Orlando, Florida, spent the last weeks of his life texting a AI character ...

Placing Blame A grieving mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but also pushed him ...

Megan Garcia said her son chatted continuously with the bots provided by Character.ai in the months before his death on ...

A lawsuit against an AI company raises concerns about chatbots' impact on mental health, addiction risks, and ethical issues, ...