Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother’s lawsuit accusing an AI chatbot of causing her son psychological distress that led to his death by suicide in Florida ...

Megan Garcia stands next to a picture of her son Sewell Setzer III. Alphabet’s Google and AI startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a lawsuit by a Florida mother who alleged the startup’s chatbot ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - Alphabet’s Google and AI startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a lawsuit by a Florida mother who alleged the startup's chatbot led to the suicide of her 14-year-old son, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In what may mark the tech industry’s first significant legal settlement over AI-related harm, Google and the startup Character.AI ...

Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits over chatbot-linked teen suicides.

A Florida mom is suing Character.ai, accusing the artificial intelligence company’s chatbots of initiating “abusive and sexual interactions” with her teenage son and encouraging him to take his own ...

As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, its role in everyday life is expanding far beyond productivity and information.

Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide in February 2024 after corresponding with an AI-companion chatbot, according to her testimony and a later lawsuit against Character ...