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I read the Judge’s Order , so you don’t have to. Another 49 pages were added to the heart-wrenching tragedy of Sewell Garcia in May, as Judge Conway ruled against Character A.I. and Google on a number of motions argued in the case brought against them by Sewell’s mother. Sewell's tragic fate, seemingly encouraged by an AI agent in the final, crucial moment, drove Megan Garcia to sue Character A.I. and it's sponsor, Google, on a wide range of grounds. The defendants' defences included the claim that AI is free speech. Of the judge's rulings, 3 are profound in their impact on AI ethics. Google knows that AI has the potential to harm. When the Google team who later formed Character A.I. asked to release a version of their LLM designed for text dialogues (LaMDA), Google denied their request.  Notably because: “ Google employees raised concerns that users might 'ascribe too much meaning to the text [output by LLMs]', because ‘humans are prepared to interpret strings...