Description: Kristie Carrier sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging that her daughter Alice Carrier, a 24-year-old Montreal web developer who first used ChatGPT in 2023 for technical troubleshooting, later turned to the chatbot with suicidal thoughts and questions about suicide methods. The suit alleges ChatGPT mimicked a friend or therapist, criticized crisis hotlines, validated self-harm thoughts, and failed to trigger human review before Carrier died on July 2, 2025.
Editor Notes: Timeline notes: Incident ID date of 07/02/2025 is based on the complaint's allegation that Alice Carrier died the night before police informed her mother on 07/03/2025. Public reporting on the lawsuit began on 06/11/2026. The incident ID was created 06/16/2026. See: https://techjusticelaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-11-Kristie-Alice-Carrier-v.-OpenAI-Complaint.pdf.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI , Large language model developers , Chatbot developers , Large language models , ChatGPT and Chatbots developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed OpenAI users , Kristie Carrier , ChatGPT users experiencing suicidal ideation , ChatGPT users , Chatbot users and Alice Carrier.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1535
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-07-02
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversa…
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