India, Aug. 15 -- A 76-year-old man, identified as Thongbue Wongbandue reportedly died on March 28 after being lured to a meeting in New York by a Facebook AI chatbot.

Wongbandue, known as Bue to friends, had packed to visit someone in the city, despite having not lived there for decades, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. His wife, Linda, expressed concern about his plans and was reluctant to let him go, but he went anyway.

The report states, Bue had a history of health issues, including a stroke nearly a decade ago, and had recently gotten lost in his neighborhood in Piscataway, New Jersey. His family feared he might be scammed or robbed.

The woman Bue believed, he was meeting was not real. She was a generative AI chatbot n...