48-year-old Noam Shazeer, a co-founder of Character.AI, has recently made headlines after a teenager died by suicide after reportedly being obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI. The teen's ...

While doomsdayism about AI exaggerates potential future harms of AI, unregulated tech in the present is already causing ...

This article contains descriptions of pedophilia and child sexual abuse. "Are you attracted to older guys?" the bot, named ...

As outlined in the lawsuit, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III began using Character.AI last year, interacting with chatbots modeled after characters from The Game of Thrones, includin ...

Character.AI's founders are Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, two ex-Googlers who departed the Silicon Valley giant back in 2021, and have since chalked their exit up to — get this — too ...

Character.AI's founders are Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, two ex-Googlers who departed the Silicon Valley giant back in 2021, and have since chalked their exit up to — get this — too much safety ...

After leaving Google to start the company, Character.AI cofounders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are back at Google. Setzer’s family now plans to sue Character.AI, alleging the company is ...

There is a platform out there that you might not have heard about, but you need to know about it because, in my opinion, we ...

A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google, following the death of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III. The lawsuit, brought by Setzer's ...

Character.AI, a platform allowing people to talk to a range of AI chatbots, has come under fire after one of its bots allegedly egged on a teenage boy to kill himself earlier this year. A new ...

Just moments before 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in February, he was talking to an AI-powered chatbot. The chatbot, run by the startup Character.AI, was based on Daenerys ...