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Can AI make us lose our minds?

AI designed to mimic human interaction can exploit weaknesses in our minds and emotions—with catastrophic consequences.

Fortune

Mom Sues AI Company After Chatbot Allegedly Encourages Autistic Teen Son to Kill Parents For Limiting Screen Time

A lawsuit against Character.ai alleges that the chatbot app encouraged self-harm and suggested a teen kill his parents for limiting his screen time.

International Business Times

Mom Sues AI Company After Chatbot Encourages Her Autistic Teen Son to Kill His Parents for Limiting Screen Time

A lawsuit against Character.ai alleges that the chatbot app encouraged self-harm and suggested a teen kill his parents for limiting his screen time.

Latin Times

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Father Slams Character.AI After Murdered Daughter Was Unknowingly 'Resurrected' As A Chatbot

A father discovered an AI chatbot was impersonating his deceased daughter. The incident raises serious ethical concerns about AI.

International Business Times UK

TechScape: Tech CEOs hedge their bets and make nice with Trump

Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have picked up the phone, while Elon Musk gets to share the stage

The Guardian - US

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Releases & Bluesky Users Surge: Tech & Gaming News This Week

Everything from the brand new Call of Duty, to Bluesky user count soaring and more covered in this week's recap of tech and gaming news.

Pedestrian.tv

14-Year-Old Takes His Own Life After AI 'Girlfriend' Urges Him To 'Come Home As Soon As Possible'

A Florida teen became obsessed with a lifelike "Game of Thrones" chatbot and tragically took his own life, highlighting the dangers of AI chatbots.

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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.

Fortune

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.

Tech&Learning

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.

Fortune

Has the ChatGPT bubble burst?

ChatGPT surged to 100 million monthly active users just over two months after its launch, making it the fastest-growing app in history.

Fortune

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

Evening Standard

What is Character.AI? The ChatGPT rival that lets you create and talk to AI chatbots

You can interact with bots based on fictional characters and real people, both living and dead.

Evening Standard

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