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A recent lawsuit filed by the family of Sewell Setzer, a 14-year-old who died by suicide, has raised pressing questions about the safety of AI chatbots for children. Setzer's mother, a resident of ...

The mother of a Florida boy who died by suicide in February filed a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence technology company on Wednesday, saying a chatbot drove her child to take his own life.

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers behind Character.AI ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For two tedious hours, a federal judge in Orlando listened to more than a dozen attorneys discuss the First Amendment, tech ...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a grieving mother’s lawsuit over her Orlando teen son’s suicide can move forward, rejecting for now arguments by an artificial intelligence company that its AI ...

Florida mother Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit against the A.I. company Character Technologies, which owns the chatbot Character.AI, blaming them for the suicide of her son, Sewell Setzer III.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this undated photo provided by Megan Garcia of Florida in October 2024, she stands with her son, Sewell Setzer III.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers ...