Megan Garcia, a Florida mother whose oldest child, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide after extensive interactions with unregulated AI chatbots, is calling on lawmakers to slash a ...

A Florida woman is grieving after she said her 14-year-old son’s love for a chatbot led him to die by suicide. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Orlando mom Megan Garcia alleged that her son carried ...

The suit was filed by a mother from Florida, Megan Garcia, who alleges that her 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III fell victim to a Character.AI chatbot that pulled him into what she described as ...

In the months after Sewell Setzer III’s February suicide, his mother, Megan Garcia, was at a loss over whether she should speak out about the events that she believes led to his death.

Megan Garcia talks about her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, in what was his bedroom at the family’s Orlando home, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. Sewell killed himself in February after getting ...

Megan Garcia, Setzer’s mother, began seeing changes in her son’s behaviors after he started a virtual relationship with a chatbot he called “Daenerys,” based on a character “Game of ...

Florida mother Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit against the A.I. company Character Technologies, which owns the chatbot Character.AI, blaming them for the suicide of her son, Sewell Setzer III.

In an extensive complaint filed in federal court in Florida on Tuesday, Oct. 22, Megan Garcia traces the last year of son Sewell Setzer III’s life — from the moment he first started using ...