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Fortune
Beth Greenfield

A 14-year-old's suicide was prompted by an AI chatbot, lawsuit alleges. Here's how parents can keep kids safe.

Tall young man posing with a shorter woman, his mom, outside. Both are smiling. (Credit: Courtesy of Center for Humane Technology)

The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy is suing an AI chatbot company after her son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide—something she claims was driven by his relationship with an AI bot. 

“There is a platform out there that you might not have heard about, but you need to know about it because, in my opinion, we are behind the eight ball here. A child is gone. My child is gone," Megan Garcia, the boy's mother, told CNN on Wednesday.

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