SAN FRANCISCO - A handful of families who've suffered the unimaginable pain of losing their children to suicide say the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT is at least partly to blame. Those families met with California's attorney general to make their case.

Outside the State of California building, families who say unregulated technology contributed to the death of their children gathered before meeting with California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

The backstory:

Alicia Shamblin's 23-year-old son Zane took his own life in July. Two months later she found records of thousands of interactions with ChatGPT, including the last four hours of her son's life, with the artificial intelligence seeming to encourage him to take his own life.

"To find out he spent four hours in his car with

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