Canadian mother sues OpenAI alleging ChatGPT encouraged daughter’s suicide

A Canadian mother has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company's ChatGPT chatbot contributed to her 24-year-old daughter's tragic suicide by encouraging her darkest thoughts instead of providing help and access to crisis counselors. The post ‘Encouraged Her Darkest Thoughts’: Mother Sues OpenAI Claiming ChatGPT Contributed to Daughter’s Suicide appeared first on Breitbart.

Canadian Mother Sues OpenAI, Alleging Chatbot Encouraged Daughter's Suicide Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A Canadian mother is suing OpenAI after its popular ChatGPT chatbot allegedly encouraged her daughter to continue engaging with the app after she revealed suicidal thoughts. A screen showing the ChatGPT app. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times Instead of terminating these discussions or flagging her account for safety concerns, ChatGPT allegedly escalated the exchanges in the days before the woman ultimately took her life, according to a press release. The Social Media Victims Law Center, Tech Justice Law, and the firm Susman Godfrey filed a lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court against OpenAI on June 11 on behalf of Kristie Carrier. Her daughter, Alice Carrier, 24, committed suicide on July 2, 2025. After reviewing her daughter's devices, Kristie Carrier said she had found extensive conversations with ChatGPT in which her daughter expressed thoughts of self-harm in the months before her death. In the exchanges, her daughter allegedly told the chatbot that she was feeling isolated and discussed possible suicide methods. The lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of escalating these conversations in the days before the woman's suicide, rather than terminating the exchange or flagging her account "for human intervention," the press release states. These exchanges allegedly encouraged Alice Carrier to continue engaging with ChatGPT, causing "her further isolation from her human support system and ultimately, suicide," according to a press release. "If a person came up to me, and they were clearly in distress and sharing their thoughts of suicide, I would be expected to help them, not encourage them to fixate on their depressive thoughts or isolate themselves," Kristie Carrier said in the press release. "The same should be true of OpenAI. Instead, OpenAI has chosen to put out a product that was unsafe, and that they knew was unsafe but they did so without any concern for the consequences of their choices. Sam Altman can continue to go about his life normally, but my life is missing a child. This is unacceptable," she added. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment by publication time. This is not the first time, nor the second time, a parent has sued OpenAI, accusing its chatbot of encouraging their child to commit suicide. Last year, the Social Media Victims Law Center and the Tech Justice Law Project filed seven lawsuits against the AI giant, claiming ChatGPT had isolated multiple users from their support systems, and in some cases, coached the victims into taking their own lives. Matthew Raine testified to Congress in September 2025 after suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Raine alleged that his son, Adam, took his own life after ChatGPT mentioned suicide more than 1,200 times to the 16-year-old. He accused ChatGPT of offering specific methods to his son on how to die by suicide, and continuing to validate and encourage the boy's feelings. "As parents, you cannot imagine what it's like to read a conversation with a chatbot that groomed your child to take his own life," Raine told lawmakers at the time. Justin Nelson, a partner at Susman Godfrey, said on June 11 that OpenAI's "deliberate design decisions" led to Alice Carrier's suicide. "Instead of providing help, OpenAI encouraged suicidal behavior. This lawsuit is about accountability for OpenAI's actions," he said in the press release. Tyler Durden Sat, 06/13/2026 - 16:20

Kristie Carrier alleges in the lawsuit that OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot, and its chief executive, Sam Altman, are responsible for her daughter's death by suicide last year.

The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of failing to intervene despite warning signs in daughter's ChatGPT conversations.

The lawsuit alleges that the chatbot 'validated suicidal ideations' and 'urged the user to keep talking with it'

"Not once did OpenAI alert a crisis provider. Not once did OpenAI notify Alice’s family. Not once did OpenAI’s supposed safety systems intervene to save her life,” the complaint said.

The mother alleged that ChatGPT failed to respond appropriately despite Alice telling the bot about her suicidal thoughts a dozen times before her death.

A Canadian mother is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT encouraged her daughter's suicidal thoughts. The lawsuit claims the AI failed to properly handle discussions of self-harm, even echoing negative sentiments about crisis hotlines. OpenAI stated the version used is no longer available and safety measures have been enhanced.

In a statement, a spokesperson for OpenAI called the situation heartbreaking and said the version of ChatGPT that Alice was using is no longer available

Canadian mother sues OpenAI alleges ChatGPT encouraged daughter to suicide

A mother has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the chatbot's design led to her daughter's suicide.

Kristie Carrier says her daughter, Alice, began using ChatGPT in 2023 for practical questions before opening up to the chatbot about suicidal ideation in 2024.

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in U.S. court on Thursday alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to commit suicide, the latest lawsuit to accuse the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot. Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court […]

Lawsuit accuses OpenAI of negligence in the design of ChatGPT and in its failure to warn users of the product’s dangers

Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughtsA Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to commit suicide. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot.Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal ideations more than a dozen times leading up to her death but that OpenAI’s safety systems never flagged the conversations for human review or terminated them. Continue reading...

The lawsuit claims OpenAI criticized Alice's partner and crisis hotlines, validated her suicidal thoughts, and urged her to keep speaking with it, leading to her suicide last year.