Man, 76, dies while trying to meet up with AI chatbot who he thought was a real person despite pleas from wife and kids

A cognitively impaired pensioner has died after trying to meet up with an AI chatbot that he believed was a real person. Thongbue Wongbandue - of Piscataway in New Jersey, a town just a 45-minute drive southwest of New York City - had been chatting with the bot on Facebook Messenger, when it…