Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- It was bound to come. With the relentless, remorseless march of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots pullulating the internet and snatching the attention and mindless devotion of unwitting users, the legal suit is becoming common fare. These initially lay in the field of copyright breaches and intellectual property violations. Attention is now turning to matters of safety and misrepresentation. In the United States, the states of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have coordinated lawsuits alleging violations of consumer protection laws and common law precedents.

This follows in the steps of Florida's Attorney General, Jame Uthmeier, who filed a lawsuit in June against OpenAI...