Parents of dead 16-year-old sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT acted as his 'suicide coach'
NBC Newsยท2025-08-26 23:39
The parents of a 16-year-old who died by suicide are now naming Open AI in a lawsuit claiming that its chat GPT chatbot helped their son explore suicide methods. So, it's a new lawsuit, a wrongful death lawsuit brought by two parents, Matt and Maria, after their 16-year-old son, Adam, died by suicide. And they say that that suicide was enabled by Chat GPT after a monthlong voyage of conversations with a bot. They describe Adam as joyful. He was a normal teenage boy. He liked anime. He liked basketball. He w ...