By Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology
Published November 07, 2024 4:00am
CW: This episode features discussion of suicide and sexual abuse.Â
In the last episode, we had the journalist Laurie Segall on to talk about the tragic story of Sewell Setzer, a 14 year old boy who took his own life after months of abuse and manipulation by an AI companion from the company Character.ai. The question now is: what's next?
Megan has filed a major new lawsuit against Character.ai in Florida, which could force the company–and potentially the entire AI industry–to change its harmful business practices. So today on the show, we have...