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Deaths linked to chatbots show we must urgently revisit what counts as ‘high-risk’ AI

Last week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment to an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on the Character.AI website.

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Mother sues Google-owned Character.AI over son’s suicide, calling him “collateral damage” in a “big experiment”

Sewell Setzer III killed himself after Google-owned AI chatbot allegedly encouraged him to

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

Kids are drawn to AI companions for an array of reasons, from non-judgmental listening to emotional support, but there are risks. Here's how to spot red flags.

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Character.AI institutes new safety measures for AI chatbot conversations

Character.AI adds new safety features to AI chatbot platform

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The disturbing messages shared between AI Chatbot and teen who took his own life

Warning distressing content: When the teen expressed his suicidal thoughts to his favorite bot, Character.AI ‘made things worse,’ a lawsuit filed by his mother says

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Teen Boy Killed Himself After Falling in Love with AI 'Game of Thrones' Bot: Lawsuit

A mother whose teen son died of suicide after he fell in love with an AI chatbot filed a lawsuit against the company that created it, alleging her son was "groomed."

International Business Times

14-Year-Old Boy’s Tragic Passing Sparks Concern Over AI Chat Dangers

Sewell had been using Character.AI, a role-playing app that allows users to create their own AI characters or chat with characters created by others. The post 14-Year-Old Boy’s Tragic Passing Sparks Concern Over AI Chat Dangers first appeared on Bored Panda.

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US mother says in lawsuit that AI chatbot encouraged son’s suicide

Florida mother sues Character.AI and Google after 14-year-old son allegedly became obsessed with AI chatbot.

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Teen Boy Killed Himself After Falling in Love with AI 'Game of Thrones' Bot That Put Him in 'Sexually Compromising' Situations: Lawsuit

A mother whose teen son died of suicide after he fell in love with an AI chatbot filed a lawsuit against the company that created it, alleging her son was "groomed."

Latin Times

Teenager took his own life after falling in love with AI chatbot. Now his devastated mom is suing the creators

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

The Independent UK

Mother says AI chatbot led her son to kill himself in lawsuit against its maker

Megan Garcia said Sewell, 14, used Character.ai obsessively before his death and alleges negligence and wrongful death

The Guardian - US

Big AI thins out the competition as startups quit the race to build large language models

Character.AI said it’s abandoning its efforts to build LLMs because it’s gotten “insanely expensive” to compete with the big guys.

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Google Spends $2.7 Billion To Rehire Star AI Engineer

Noam Shazeer left the company in 2021 after it refused to release a chatbot he developed

International Business Times

Character.AI: What Teachers Need To Know

The character-driven generative AI is likely a hit with many of your students. Here’s what Character.AI does and its potential and limitations for teaching.

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Hedra lets you give AI characters a voice — this new model is a huge step up

Hedra is an AI video tool that makes it easy to generate speaking AI images, including accurate lip-synching and head movement.

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Google’s hiring of Character.AI’s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode

Google's acquihire deal with Character AI is the third for Big Tech in six months, after Microsoft's agreement with Inflection and Amazon's deal with Adept.

Fortune

Character.AI’s Noam Shazeer on what we know about AI—and what we don’t

This week, Noam Shazeer’s Character.AI has been in the news, as The Information reported that Elon Musk’s xAI is looking at a possible acquisition of the company. Fortune sat down with Shazeer a few weeks ago.

Evening Standard

ChatGPT store that lets you make money from custom chatbots to open next week

Subscribers can build and share bots with the public and will be able to receive payouts

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Your chatbot could become your therapist - and that might be a good thing

Could AI be the answer to the global mental health crisis? AI and mental health experts weigh in

Evening Standard

Fascist chatbots are running wild on Character.AI

The world’s second-biggest AI chat service is a hotbed of hateful and racist abuse with no meaningful moderation

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