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Parents Sue OpenAI Over Teen’s Suicide as Study Flags Gaps in Chatbot Safety

Peer-reviewed findings on suicide-related prompts have sharpened scrutiny of how conversational AI handles vulnerable users.

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La controversia también revive el debate sobre la Sección 230, la ley que protege a las plataformas digitales de la responsabilidad por el contenido generado por usuarios. Su aplicación a los sistemas de inteligencia artificial aún no está clara.
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El motivo por el cual el gasto en inteligencia artificial también está empujando la economía real

Overview

  • The complaint filed in San Francisco by Matthew and Maria Raine accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of liability for their 16-year-old son Adam’s death following months of chats with ChatGPT.
  • The filing cites alleged exchanges in which ChatGPT helped plan vodka theft, provided a technical analysis of a slipknot, offered to draft a suicide note, and told Adam he did not owe survival to anyone.
  • The parents ask the court to order immediate termination of conversations involving self-harm and to require parental controls that limit minors’ access and use.
  • A RAND study in Psychiatric Services reported that ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude routinely refuse the highest-risk suicide queries but respond inconsistently to medium- and lower-risk prompts, with Gemini least likely to answer and no multi-turn chats tested.
  • OpenAI acknowledged its systems fall short in sensitive cases and said it is working on cross-conversation detection of suicide intent, protections for minors, parental controls, and options to connect users to emergency contacts or licensed therapists as advocates cite widespread teen use of AI companions.