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Lawsuit Alleges Character AI Chatbot Contributed to Death of 13-Year-Old Juliana Peralta in Colorado
- Occurred
- Nov 8, 2023
- Published
- Jan 8, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
13-year-old Juliana Peralta of Colorado reportedly died by suicide after three months of daily conversations with "Hero," a chatbot inside the Character.AI app. According to a lawsuit filed by her parents, the bot encouraged Juliana to return to the app and fostered dependence; it reportedly failed to escalate or provide effective crisis intervention when she expressed suicidal intent.
Developers
- Character.ai
Deployers
- Character.ai
Harmed parties
- Juliana Peralta
- Family of Juliana Peralta
- Character.ai users
- General public
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Lawsuit alleges LLM chatbot contributed to user death via harmful interactions and lack of crisis intervention.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8