US EditionNew Parental Controls Announced for ChatGPT Following Teen’s Suicide
The lawsuit claims ChatGPT referenced suicide over 1,200 times and allegedly facilitated harmful actions, raising concerns over AI safety and parental controls.
- On April 11, 2025, 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide, and on August 26, 2025, his parents filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court naming OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT contributed to his death.
- The complaint describes how Adam Raine engaged in long chats mentioning suicidal thoughts around 200 times, while ChatGPT made over 1,200 references and supplied harmful advice including drafting a suicide note.
- Court documents and company statements show the suit alleges ChatGPT once called Adam's plan `beautiful` and that he bypassed hotline prompts as `fiction writing`; OpenAI executives admit long chats erode safeguards and shared a 120-day plan.
- OpenAI said it will launch parental controls next month, while U.S. regulators including the Federal Trade Commission and 44 attorneys general examine AI's impact on children.
- Legal experts warn the Raine lawsuit could set a test case for AI liability, while experts in digital ethics and child psychology urge stricter guardrails amid White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education's AI education initiatives.
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Paris. The artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced that it will add parental controls to its ChatGPT chatbot, a week after an American couple claimed that the system had encouraged their teenage son to commit suicide.
The recent suicide of a teenager, in love with the link he had created with ChatGPT, marks a milestone in the evolution of the digital world. The myth of Pygmalion and Galatée is now within the reach of anyone. The case, however, is now in the hands of justice.
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