Federal judge allows a lawsuit against the character AI based in Silicon Valley, which blames chatbot for the death of the teenager

San Francisco (KGO) – Wednesday was a legal victory for Megan Garcia, who sued a AI company Silicon Valley last year, in which he was associated with suicide with the death of her 14-year-old son.

“I happened to be with my customer by phone when I saw the decision,” said Meetali Jain, Managing Director of the Tech Justice Law Project. “Shock. Relief. I have the feeling of seeing a historical moment for this specific sector.”

Character technologies, the company behind character Ai, tried to reject the case, but a federal judge rejected the company's arguments on Wednesday that his chatbots were protected by the first change.

The lawsuit submitted in the Florida court claims that the AI ​​company was ruthless by granting Minor's access to lifelike companions without proper protective measures.

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“The legal arguments were difficult, but this is only because they were new, that there were very little precedents that led us,” said Jain. “At the first change, there was no case to examine whether the spending of an LLM is protected.”

“AI is the new border in technology, but it is also an unknown territory in our legal system,” said Steven Clark, right analyst. “You will see that further cases like this are checked by courts that try to determine exactly which protective measures AI fit.”

The judge also made room to promote Google for his role in the development of character -KI.

In a statement, a Google spokesman wrote: “We do not agree to this decision. Google and Character AI are completely separated, and Google did not create, designed or managed the app of character AI or a component share.”

“This is a warning story for companies that are involved in the production of artificial intelligence,” said Clark. “And for parents whose children interact with chatbots.”