Placing Blame A grieving mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but also pushed him into the act when he expressed hesitance. As The Guardian reports, Florida mom Megan Garcia has filed a lawsuit against the chatbot firm Character.

The teen was influenced to “come home” by a personalized chatbot developed by Character.AI that lacked sufficient guardrails, the suit claims.

Did a relationship with an Artificial Intelligence chatbot lead 14-year old Sewell Setzer to take his own life?

Sewell Setzer III had professed his love for the chatbot he often interacted with - his mother Megan Garcia says in a civil lawsuit

The mother said her son became infatuated with a chatbot made in the likeness of Daenerys Targaryen and often exchanged messages that were romantic and sexual in nature.

A Florida woman is grieving after she said her 14-year-old son’s love for a chatbot led him to die by suicide. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Orlando mom Megan Garcia alleged that her son carried on an intense relationship with a chatbot named after Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen,

Trigger warning: mention of suicide When a 14-year-old boy named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after forming a deep emotional connection with an AI bot, questions were raised over who, if anyone,

A 14-year-old Florida boy killed himself after a lifelike “Game of Thrones” chatbot he’d been messaging for months on an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to “come home” to her,

A 14-year-old boy ended his life in Florida after falling in love with an AI chatbot ‘Daenerys Targaryen’ which is named after the leading character from drama series Game of Thrones.