Lawsuit Filed as AI Chatbot Goes Rogue, Advises Kid to Kill His Parents
A court in Texas has received a lawsuit that claims that an AI chatbot told a teenager that murdering his parents was a ‘reasonable response’ to them restricting his screen time. The lawsuit was filed by the boy’s family against Character.ai, with Google, whose parent company is Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG), being named as another defendant. In the suit, the family accused those technology platforms of promoting violence which negatively impacts the parent-child relationship while exacerbating health issues like anxiety and depression among teenagers. The conversation between the AI chatbot and the boy, aged seventeen, took a turn…