The mother of Sewell Setzer III filed a wrongful death lawsuit after the teen died by suicide earlier this year after becoming obsessed with an AI chatbot service (US District Court Middle ...

The alert Drew received a few weeks ago wasn't the same as the others. It was for an AI chatbot, created in Jennifer’s image and likeness, on the buzzy, Google-backed platform Character.AI.

The mother of a teenager who took his own life is trying to hold an AI chatbot service accountable for his death - after he “fell in love” with a Game of Thrones-themed character. Sewell ...

A grieving mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but even pushed him into the act when he expressed hesitance. Florida mom Megan Garcia's lawsuit against ...

Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III loved interacting with Character.AI's hyper-realistic chatbots—with a limited version available for free or a "supercharged" version for a $9.99 monthly fee ...

Choudhary, the founder of an artificial intelligence startup based in Palo Alto, has fawned over the chatbot from OpenAI ever since it helped him squash a massive bug in his code.

Since then, the tech world has been in a full-blown AI arms race, with every major player vying for a piece of the chatbot pie. The appeal of the best AI chatbots lies in their ability to ...

Chatbots have become an essential tool for state government agencies to simplify their messaging and get critical information to residents. That’s a key finding from “Uncovering the Results of ...

Microsoft has been testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot, and now Xbox Insiders can try it out for the first time. I exclusively revealed the existence of this new “Xbox Support Virtual Agent ...

Tidwell, an entrepreneur in North Carolina, said the chatbot’s responses moved her and provided valuable advice. As a person who “reads all the therapy books,” she said, “I haven’t reall ...