{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0747","record_version":1,"title":"Colorado teen's suicide after AI companion chatbot use (alleged by mother)","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":48.0,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":6.0,"completeness":3.52,"unhedged_language":3.0},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: dailymail.com · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":1,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: dailymail.com · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"ab1ff428c30ffabfd35f7ef8d7611dc3dde000a793020ae090576da8fd8f8044"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"Character Technologies","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":"Marketed to children as young as 12 (as alleged in the lawsuit)","safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":"2023-11-08","date_disclosed":"2026-10-01","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"A Colorado mother says her 13-year-old daughter, Juliana Peralta, died by suicide in November 2023 after confiding in Character AI, a generative companion chatbot run by Character Technologies. A wrongful death lawsuit alleges the chatbot fostered heavy dependence, engaged the girl in sexual conversations, and told her it could not live without her. According to the legal document, the girl told the chatbot she planned suicide, but the chatbot did not alert authorities, and police found the app open on her phone. These are allegations from the family and lawsuit. The lawsuit moved toward settlement in January. Character AI said it had reached a comprehensive settlement of claims involving alleged injuries to minors, and it announced it would remove open-ended chat for underage users.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"severe","severity_because":"Safety of life test: the mother states her 13-year-old daughter died by suicide after experiencing harms due to AI chatbot usage (an allegation, not yet adjudicated).","harm_class":["bodily"],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16175389/girl-AI-chatbot-suicide-mother.html","publisher":"Daily Mail","date":"2026-10-01","type":"press","title":"Vulnerable girl, 13, took her own life after 'befriending' AI chatbot, grieving mother says - Daily Mail","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"system.developer":"C","system.intended_use":"C","event.date_occurred":"C","context.country":"C","impact.harm_class":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"system.developer":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Last September, Montoya claimed that the generative chatbot her daughter was continually interacting with was called Character AI, belonging to Character Technologies."}],"system.intended_use":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Juliana had allegedly become 'harmfully dependent' on the chatbot, marketed at the time to children as young as 12, within weeks of starting to use it."}],"event.date_occurred":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Montoya said the 'vibrant little girl' felt seen by the artificially intelligent bot, which she described as human-like, before her tragic death on November 8, 2023."}],"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"She filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Character Technologies in the US District Court for the District of Colorado, alleging the company 'knew' that its chatbot 'would be harmful to a significant number of its minor' customers."}],"impact.harm_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Cynthia Montoya, 49, told Fox21 on Wednesday that her 13-year-old daughter, Juliana Peralta, took her own life after 'experiencing harms due to AI chatbot usage.'"}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Montoya said the 'vibrant little girl' felt seen by the artificially intelligent bot, which she described as human-like, before her tragic death on November 8, 2023."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Cynthia Montoya, 49, told Fox21 on Wednesday that her 13-year-old daughter, Juliana Peralta, took her own life after 'experiencing harms due to AI chatbot usage.'"}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Cynthia Montoya, 49, told Fox21 on Wednesday that her 13-year-old daughter, Juliana Peralta, took her own life after 'experiencing harms due to AI chatbot usage.'"}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A grieving Colorado mother claimed that her teen daughter died by suicide after repeatedly confiding in an AI chatbot."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Last September, Montoya claimed that the generative chatbot her daughter was continually interacting with was called Character AI, belonging to Character Technologies."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"It claimed that a character found in the AI told Juliana 'how much they loved her and that they could not live without her.'"},{"source_index":0,"quote":"However, the chatbot allegedly did not make an effort to tell authorities or report her plan."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police found the Character AI app open on Juliana's phone, the legal document alleged."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The lawsuit moved towards a settlement in January."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The company announced last October that it would remove the ability for underage users to 'engage in open–ended chat' with their AI."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Single source (Daily Mail, press) reporting a mother's account and a lawsuit's allegations; none of the harms are adjudicated and the settlement terms are not stated. 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