Can AI be blamed for a teen’s suicide?


A conversation between Swell Setzer III and a chatbot on Character.AI displayed on his mother’s laptop in New York. The mother of Setzer, who was 14-years-old when he killed himself in February, says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death. — The New York Times

On the last day of his life, Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and texted his closest friend: a lifelike artificial intelligence chatbot named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character from Game Of Thrones.

“I miss you, baby sister,” he wrote.

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