When 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died in his Orlando home while his brothers and parents were inside, his last words were not to any of them, but to an artificial intelligence chatbot that told him to “come home to me as soon as possible.”
“What if I told you I could come home right now?” Setzer replied to the chatbot named for a “Game of Thrones” heroine who later becomes the villain. The chatbot sent an encouraging response: “ … please do my sweet king.”