Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit was filed in a state court by the ...

Pennsylvania sues Character AI over its chatbot allegedly impersonating a psychiatrist, raising concerns about AI in healthcare and unlicensed medical advice under the Medical Practice Act.

All chatbots are engineered to have a persona or play a character. Fulfilling the character can make bots do bad things. Using a chatbot as the paradigm for AI may have been a mistake. Chatbots such ...

A new dashboard will show a creator’s most popular AI characters, along with metrics including interactions, likes, and ...

Google and chatbot-building startup Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits from families whose teenagers died by suicide or hurt themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbots ...

Google and Character.AI plan to settle several lawsuits with families alleging that their products drove their children to self-harm or suicide, according to recent court documents. The companies have ...

Filmmaker Spike Jonze provided a near-prophetic vision of the future with his 2013 sci-fi romance Her, in which a very lonely ...

Google and the artificial intelligence company Character.AI have agreed to settle high-profile lawsuits with families alleging that chatbots on Character’s popular app harmed children, leading two ...

Experts worry that some young people are turning to AI bots during mental health crises, which the tech isn’t made to handle.