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 ...

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 ...

It names Character Technologies Inc. and its founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, as defendants. Google, which ...

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

The teen was influenced to “come home” by a personalized chatbot developed by Character.AI that lacked sufficient guardrails, the suit claims.

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 ...

You want to get up and scream and say, ‘I miss my child. I want my baby’,” she added. Noam Shazeer, one of the founders of Character AI, claimed last year that the platform would be “super, super ...

The lawsuit also names Character.AI’s founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google, where both founders now work on AI efforts. But a spokesperson for Google said the two companies ...

“It’s going to be super, super helpful to a lot of people who are lonely or depressed,” Noam Shazeer, one of the founders of Character.AI, said on a podcast last year. AI companionship apps ...

Chatbots mimicking deceased teenagers Molly Russell and Brianna Ghey have been found on Character.ai, a platform that allows ...

An AI model can predict dual-target drugs that can inhibit two enzymes at the same time to treat complex diseases and ...