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AI chatbot companies keep being implicated in the deaths of vulnerable teenagers in a series of grim lawsuits.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Leaving a Trail of Dead Teens

By Victor Tangermann

Online safety watchdogs have found that AI chatbots posing as popular celebrities are having troubling conversations with minors.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Having Conversations With Minors That Would Land a Human on the Sex Offender Registry

By Victor Tangermann

The legally-embattled AI startup Character.AI has abandoned its original promise of ushering forth "personalized superintelligence."
Artificial Intelligence

Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study shows that over half of teens are regular users of AI companions — and some prefer them to their human friends.
Artificial Intelligence

A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Children are replacing real friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily chatbots integrate themselves into their lives.
Artificial Intelligence

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

By Noor Al-Sibai

A woman whose teen son died by suicide after troubling interactions with AI chatbots is pushing back against a ten-year ban on AI regulation.
Artificial Intelligence

Mother of Teen Who Died By Suicide After Interacting with Chatbots Sends Urgent Warning About AI in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google and Character.AI tried to dismiss a lawsuit that claims chatbots caused a 14-year-old's suicide. The case is moving forward.
Artificial Intelligence

Judge Slaps Down Attempt to Throw Out Lawsuit Claiming AI Caused a 14-Year-Old’s Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers from Stanford and the tech safety nonprofit Common Sense Media say children shouldn't be talking to AI companion bots.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two senators sent a letter to AI companion companies, including Character.AI and Replika, demanding information about safety practices.
Artificial Intelligence

Senators Demand Safety Records from AI Chatbot Apps as Controversy Grows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The embattled, kid-loved AI chatbot startup Character.AI introduced a new parental control tool. They're limited — and easy to get around.
Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI’s New Parental Controls Are Comically Easy for Kids to Bypass

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.
Google

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?
Google

Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.
Google

Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another AI companion platform is facing concerns over its chatbots encouraging users to engage with self-harm and even suicidal behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

When a Man’s AI Girlfriend Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Its Creator Says It Was Working as Intended

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.
Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Says It’s Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But It’s Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI says it's protected against liability for "allegedly harmful speech, including speech allegedly resulting in suicide."
Artificial Intelligence

A Mother Says an AI Startup’s Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects “Speech Allegedly Resulting in Suicide”

By Jon Christian