In August, a California family filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman , alleging that the company’s ChatGPT product had “coached” their 16-year-old son into committing suicide in April of this year. According to the complaint, Adam Raine began using the AI bot in the fall of 2024 for help with homework but gradually began to confess darker feelings and a desire to self-harm. Over the next several months, the suit claims, ChatGPT validated Raine’s suicidal impulses and readily provided advice on methods for ending his life. The complaint states that chat logs reveal how, on the night he died, the bot provided detailed instructions on how Raine could hang himself — which he did.

The lawsuit was already set to become a landmark case in the

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