Another Parent Has Filed A Wrongful Death Suit Against OpenAI
It’s the latest case to raise alarms about ChatGPT’s lack of safeguards for suicidal behavior.
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OpenAI is going back to court on another set of charges that its ChatGPT platform failed to protect a user from taking her own life. The company is being sued on behalf of Kristie Carrier, whose daughter Alice died by suicide on July 2, 2025.
The suit claims that Alice discussed her suicidal thoughts and plans with the chatbot in the months leading up to her death, but that OpenAI did not have the appropriate safeguards in place to end the conversation or to alert her family to the situation. In addition to allegations of negligence and wrongful death, the suit is seeking an injunction that would require OpenAI to implement more guardrails in its AI platform.
"As the complaint alleges, OpenAI's deliberate design decisions led to this tragic suicide. Instead of providing...
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