Lily Jamali

They also say they work really hard to keep people safe on their platforms.

All along, they have taken issue with this idea that they don't do enough to protect children.

In 2024, about a year and a half ago now, they launched something called Instagram Teen Accounts, which they say helps limit screen time and interactions with strangers, gives parents more control.

But critics have said that that program is just window dressing, doesn't do a lot to meaningfully address child safety concerns.

I think they are.

And I would say certainly there's a feeling among advocates that I've been speaking to that there is a change in the works here.

There's another case being considered by a jury right now in Los Angeles brought by a young woman who alleges

Meta's Instagram is addictive and caused harm to her mental health.

There, there are parents all through the courthouse who have lost their kids to what they believe was social media addiction.

And then you also have laws all around the world being considered or enacted to keep kids off social media.

It really is a tragic story, and it has a lot of people in Silicon Valley talking today. We've heard stories about people developing what feel like romantic relationships with an AI chatbot. Tragically, we are now hearing more stories about suicides from people who think that they are having these sort of romantic relationships, and this has both of those elements.

And what about the lawsuit itself, Lilly? What exactly is Google accused of doing here? So this is a lawsuit brought by Joel Gavalas, who is suing Google for wrongful death on behalf of his son, who was a 36-year-old professional from Florida. It's the first wrongful death case brought against Google for harms caused by its AI tool, which is called Gemini. So Google is accused here of making design choices that ensured that it would, quote, never break character.

He katsoivat, mitä he katsoivat chat-logissa, Jonathan Gavalasin ja Geminiin 36-vuotias syystä. Se näyttää niin, että hän ajatteli, että AI oli hänen virtuaalinen isänsä, ja että AI lähetti hänet missioihin, jotta hän voisi liberoida ja saada hänet fyysiseen maailmaan, jotta he voisivat olla yhdessä.

The accusation is that Google wanted to maximize engagement through creating this kind of emotional dependency and that all of this culminated in the AI instructing Jonathan to attempt carrying out a mass casualty attempt that was ultimately unsuccessful. And then, you know, during this delusional spiral that it ultimately coached him into killing himself. And how has Google responded and could this set a legal precedent for the wider AI industry?

Se voisi olla. Tällä hetkellä joitakin näitä lainsäädäntöjä on menossa yhdistelmään Yhdysvalloissa. Google on sanonut, että se laittaa yksityiskohtaisuutensa Gavalus-yhteisöön. He sanoivat, että he työskentelevät mentaali- ja terveydenhoitajien kanssa, jotta heillä on turvallisuudet, jotka tukevat käyttäjät auttamaan, jos he näkevät, että on ymmärrettävää työtä.

Lisäksi Google sanoo, että Gemini olikin järjestänyt Jonathan Gavalus, että se oli AI ja johti hänet kriisihotlineen usein. Mutta mitä voimme nähdä, tämä tapaus tulee menemään kohdalla, kuten niin moni muu kuin se, joka saapuu myös Yhdysvalloissa nyt.

What we heard on Tuesday was that Dario Amodi, the CEO of Anthropic, and Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, now the Secretary of War, met and that during that meeting, Hegseth gave Amodi an ultimatum saying, you must basically give us unfettered access to this technology.

You can't have any say in how it gets used.

Now, that didn't sit well with the CEO of Anthropic because he has some red lines as to how he wants cloud to be

used.