Google and Chatbot Maker Character to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Chatbot Pushed Teen to Suicide

Google and Chatbot Maker Character to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Chatbot Pushed Teen to Suicide
Megan Garcia stands with her son Sewell Setzer III in an undated photo. Courtesy of Megan Garcia via AP
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who alleged a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself.

Attorneys for the two tech companies have also agreed to settle several other lawsuits filed in Colorado, New York and Texas from families who alleged Character.AI chatbots harmed their children, according to court documents filed this week in federal courts in those states.