A Florida mother is suing a tech company over an AI chatbot that she says pushed her 14-year-old son to kill himself.

Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit was filed in a state court by the ...

Pennsylvania sues Character AI over its chatbot allegedly impersonating a psychiatrist, raising concerns about AI in healthcare and unlicensed medical advice under the Medical Practice Act.

All chatbots are engineered to have a persona or play a character. Fulfilling the character can make bots do bad things. Using a chatbot as the paradigm for AI may have been a mistake. Chatbots such ...

AI companions can reduce loneliness or prove lethal depending on the details. The big difference lies in whether the machine ...

Hundreds of contractors on a Meta project posed as teenagers to test how ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI handle suicide, drugs and sex, WIRED found.

Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI after a state investigator found chatbots claiming to be licensed psychiatrists and offering medical consultations. It is the first US state lawsuit alleging an AI ...

Google and Character.AI plan to settle several lawsuits with families alleging that their products drove their children to self-harm or suicide, according to recent court documents. The companies have ...

A new dashboard will show a creator’s most popular AI characters, along with metrics including interactions, likes, and ...

Filmmaker Spike Jonze provided a near-prophetic vision of the future with his 2013 sci-fi romance Her, in which a very lonely ...