[Eugene Volokh] Free Speech Unmuted: Can AI Companies Be Sued For What AI Says?

A mother sues Character.AI, claiming that a conversation between her teenage son and a Character.AI chatbot led him to commit suicide. A conservative activist sues Meta, claiming that its AI generated false accusations about him. Jane and I analyze these cases, and more broadly, discuss lawsuits against AI companies, and possible First Amendment defenses to those lawsuits.

See also our past episodes:

Free Speech Unmuted: Harvard vs. Trump: Free Speech and Government Grants Free Speech Unmuted: Trump's War on Big Law Can Non-Citizens Be Deported For Their Speech? Freedom of the Press, with Floyd Abrams Free Speech, Private Power, and Private Employees Court Upholds TikTok Divestiture Law Free Speech in European (and Other) Democracies, with Prof. Jacob Mchangama Protests, Public Pressure Campaigns, Tort Law, and the First Amendment Misinformation: Past, Present, and Future I Know It When I See It: Free Speech and Obscenity Laws Speech and Violence Emergency Podcast: The Supreme Court's Social Media Cases Internet Policy and Free Speech: A Conversation with Rep. Ro Khanna Free Speech, TikTok (and Bills of Attainder!), with Prof. Alan Rozenshtein The 1st Amendment on Campus with Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Free Speech On Campus AI and Free Speech Free Speech, Government Persuasion, and Government Coercion Deplatformed: The Supreme Court Hears Social Media Oral Arguments Book Bans – or Are They?

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