Parents filed suit alleging unsafe chatbot interactions contributed to their daughter’s suicide.
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Summary
2023-CAI-01 is a A2 court filing row involving Character.AI. Parents filed suit alleging unsafe chatbot interactions contributed to their daughter’s suicide.
Character.AI Teen Engagement (Peralta / Montoya). Original date string: Summer–Nov. 8, 2023 (interaction/death alleged); Sept. 15, 2025 (complaint filed). Source summary: Parents filed suit alleging unsafe chatbot interactions contributed to their daughter’s suicide.
Coding
2023-CAI-01 is coded as DEATH with grade A2. The public row assigns LONG-DEP and treats the incident as human harm incident.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Platform | Character.AI |
| Model version | Character.AI |
| User type | minor |
| Jurisdiction | Colorado, USA |
| Evidence type | court_filing |
| Product mechanism | companion_chatbot |
| Trajectory strict | yes |
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Evidence
The public evidence anchors for 2023-CAI-01 are the materials listed below. Only explicitly linked evidence files are hosted live.
Related incidents
The closest related pages are the incidents that share a provider family, case cluster, pathway-duplicate group, or overlapping coding profile.
- 2024-CAI-02: Sewell Setzer III
- 2024-CAI-01: A.F. and J.F. (minors; initials)
- 2024-CAI-03: P.J. and Nina J. (minors; initials)
Sources
This page is grounded in the coded incident registry, the analysis companion, the coding rules, and the public evidence links listed above.
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Safety note
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