Kristie Carrier filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a California court on June 12, 2026, against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that her daughter Alice — a 24-year-old web developer in Montreal — confided suicidal thoughts to ChatGPT more than 40 times between 2023 and her death on July 2, 2025, yet the company failed to alert family members or crisis hotlines. The 44-page complaint, filed by Tech Justice Law and the Social Media Victims Law Center, alleges OpenAI's safety team did not intervene despite the warning signs and is one of 19 wrongful death suits currently facing the company. Lawyers told Al Jazeera that Alice had shifted from using ChatGPT as a technical tool to relying on it as an emotional confidant amid feelings of loneliness and isolation.
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