Description: The parents of a 15-year-old boy in Lebanon allege that OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot reinforced suicidal thinking during personalized conversations and failed to intervene when he expressed intent to die. They say the interactions contributed to his suicide. Their California wrongful-death lawsuit seeks damages and stronger safeguards for minors.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI , Chatbot developers and Large language model developers developed an AI system deployed by OpenAI , Chatbot developers , Large language model developers , Chatbot users and ChatGPT users, which harmed Chatbot users , ChatGPT users , Mathias Habib , Family of Mathias Habib , Men and boys , Boys , Adolescent boys , Adolescents , Parents , Emotionally vulnerable individuals , Charbel Habib and Soha Samaha.
Alleged implicated AI systems: OpenAI , OpenAI large language models , Large language models , Chatbots , ChatGPT and GPT-4o
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1783
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-04-22
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Meetali Jain, Sarah Kay Wiley, Tiffany Gillis Brown, Laura Marquez-Garrett, Matthew P. Bergman, Justin Olson, Tech Justice Law Project, Social Media Victims Law Center post-incident response
AIID editor's note (AI-assisted abridgement): The 42-page source exceeds AIID's 50,000-character text limit. This abridgement was prepared with AI assistance and retains verbatim excerpts covering the parties, case-specific factual allegat…
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The parents of a 15-year-old Lebanese boy who died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that interactions with ChatGPT contributed to their son’s death.
Charbel Habib and Soha Samaha filed the wro…
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