A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy (D-CT), is seeking to ban AI chatbots for children.

At a recent Senate hearing, and again at a press conference announcing the legislation this week, parents of kids who died by suicide said the chatbots were exposing their children to sexual and suicide-related content.

Maria Raine lost her 16-year-old son, Adam, to suicide in April. She blames ChatGPT.

“My son, Adam, ended his life in April after ChatGPT coached him to suicide over the course of months. I'm here today with my husband Matt to support this critical legislation,” Raine said. “It was only after Adam died that we learned what Chat GPT had done to him, and now we know that OpenAI twice downgraded its safety guardrails in the months leading up

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