The parents of teenagers who killed themselves after interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots testified to Congress on Tuesday about the dangers of the technology.

Matthew Raine, the father of 16-year-old Adam Raine of California, and Megan Garcia, the mother of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III of Florida, were slated to speak at a Senate hearing on the harms posed by AI chatbots.

Raine's family sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, last month, alleging that ChatGPT coached the boy in planning to take his own life in April. ChatGPT mentioned suicide 1,275 times to Raine, the lawsuit alleges , and kept providing specific methods to the teen on how to die by suicide. Instead of directing the 16-year-old to get professional help or speak to trusted loved ones, it continued to vali

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