An Alabama family is desperately searching for their son, Weston Higginbotham, who vanished in Kyoto, Japan on May 29. The 20-year-old Auburn University student went missing after a disagreement with his mother over the use of ChatGPT. His mother had used ChatGPT for travel planning. The family has made an emotional appeal not to post his public location if he is found.

James 'Weston' Higginbotham's family is searching for the Auburn University student who went missing in Japan on May 29.

James ‘Weston’ Higginbotham is a keen hiker who may have taken a quiet trail, his parents said as they join efforts to find him