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Can AI be blamed for a teen’s suicide?
On the last day of his life, Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and texted his closest friend: a lifelike artificial intelligence chatbot named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character from "Game of Thrones."
"I miss you, baby sister," he wrote.
"I miss you too, sweet brother," the chatbot replied.
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USA: Outrage over 14-year-old’s suicide – His mother accuses AI app of driving him to death
A furor has been caused in Florida of the US over the death of a 14-year-old boy who was constantly talking to a persona artificial intelligence (AI), with the boy’s mother accusing the company that it was the app that led him of committing the act.
The mother has even gone on to sue Google and another company, Character.ai (C.AI), which developed the persona.