14-Year-Old Boy Kills Himself After Falling In Love With AI Chat Bot [Video]

The dangers of AI are still very much undiscovered, with machine learning going from strength to strength every day. One devastated mother of a ninth grader found out just how destructive they can be when her son fell in love with an AI chat bot and talked himself into suicide.

The chat bot, hosted on Character.ai, is a Game of Thrones-themed role-playing platform. Sewell Setzer III has been talking to a Daenerys Targaryen character, slipping further into obsession. He had repeatedly spoken to it about committing suicide, and the AI had done little to discourage it.

The devastated mother of the 14-year-old boy blames the AI chat bot for encouraging his suicidal behavior. She is seeking to sue the Character.AI company and its founders. She claims that the AI sexually and emotionally abused him, driving him to suicide.

“Sewell, like many children his age, did not have the maturity or mental capacity to understand that the …