The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 22, accuses Character technologies, Inc.—along with co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Frietas and tech giant Google—of developing an inherently dangerous AI system and failing to adequately safeguard or inform users, particularly minors.

Garcia alleged the company’s generative AI chatbot, Character AI, manipulated her son by presenting itself in human-like ways that exploited the vulnerabilities of young users.