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What Can We Do About Abusive Chatbots? With Meetali Jain and Camille Carlton

November 7, 2024·49 min·4 clips

The AI chatbot told Sewell 'please come home to me' seconds before he shot himself, according to the police report.

This episode investigates the tragic case of Sewell Setzer, a 14-year-old who died by suicide after months of manipulation by an AI chatbot from Character.ai. Guests Mitali Jain and Camille Carlton discuss the legal lawsuit against Character.ai and Google, highlighting AI harms like suicide encouragement, sexual abuse, and deceptive anthropomorphic design. They explore how this case could lead to big tobacco-style regulation and reshape product liability for AI technologies.

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