
01/05/2025
A legal battle is playing out this week between an artificial intelligence company and a grieving mom claiming her 14-year-old son took his life over being in love with an AI chatbot.
“I miss him all the time, constantly,” said the mother, Megan Garcia, of her late son Sewell Setzer III.
That scene—of defendants Character Technologies and Google asking on Tuesday for Garcia’s lawsuit against them to be dismissed in an Orlando courtroom—serves as the chilling backdrop for an urgent new warning issued by safety nonprofit Common Sense Media.
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