The family of an 83-year-old woman from Connecticut has brought a wrongful-death lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, claiming that the AI chatbot worsened her son’s “paranoid delusions” and contributed to him targeting her before killing her, according to AP .

According to police, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, a former worker in the tech sector, beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, before taking his own life in early August at their shared residence in Greenwich, Connecticut.

What did the lawsuit say?

The lawsuit states that, over the course of these interactions, ChatGPT repeatedly conveyed the dangerous idea that Stein-Erik should not trust anyone in his life other than the chatbot.

“It fostered his emotional dependence while systematically p

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