Matt and Maria Raine, parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Superior Court of California on Aug. 26, alleging that the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT pushed the teenager to commit suicide, marking the first accusation of wrongful death against OpenAI, the BBC reported.
The Raines enclosed chat logs between Adam, who died in April, and ChatGPT, containing messages in which he expressed suicidal thoughts. The family claimed that the chatbot reinforced the teenager’s «most harmful and self-destructive thoughts.»
In response, OpenAI told the media it was reviewing the filing and expressed its...