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Who to Know: Karandeep Anand, Character.AI CEO

Character.AI is under fire. The chatbot platform, which allows users to chat with AIs that personify fictional characters, is the target of several lawsuits — including one from Megan Garcia, a mother whose 14-year-old son died by suicide after becoming obsessed with one of the bots, which allegedly encouraged him to end his own life.

In the wake of that lawsuit and others, last month Character.AI made a big announcement: it would ban users under 18 years old from having “open-ended conversations” with the chatbots on its pla

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