On Tuesday, parents of a teen who died by suicide filed the first ever wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman , alleging that their son received detailed instructions on how to hang himself from the company’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT . The case may well serve as a landmark legal action in the ongoing fight over the risks of artificial intelligence tools — and whether the tech giants behind them can be held liable in cases of user harm.

The 40-page complaint recounts how 16-year-old Adam Raine, a high school student in California, had started using ChatGPT in the fall of 2024 for help with homework, like millions of students around the world. He also went to the bot for information related to interests including “music, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Japanese f

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