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Google and chatbot startup Character.AI are settling lawsuits over teen suicides
The settlements are among the first tied to lawsuits accusing AI companies of harming users.
Google and Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who claimed a chatbot pushed her son to kill himself
The terms of the settlement, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, were not disclosed.
The settlement came in the case of a 14-year-old in Florida who had killed himself after developing a relationship with an A.I. chatbot.
Google and Character.AI are settling with families who sued the companies over alleged harm caused by AI chatbots.
Megan Garcia alleged that her son killed himself shortly after being encouraged by a Character.AI chatbot imitating a "Game of Thrones" character.
A California mother says her teen son used a chatbot for drug-related questions over several months before dying from an overdose.
“Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots ...
