US Court says Google, AI company must face lawsuit filed by mother over her teen son’s suicide; Google responds: Did not … – The Times of India

Alphabet’s Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman named Megan Garcia. Garcia believes that Character.AI is responsible for the death of her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, who died by suicide in February this year. Setzer was messaging with the bot in the moments before he died, she alleged in her lawsuit. Garcia claims Character.AI’s chatbots contributed to her son’s suicide, a U.S. judge has ruled. According to a report by…