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Charbel Habib

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Incident 17832 Report
ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

2026-04-22

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.

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Chatbot developers

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Chatbot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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ChatGPT users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Mathias Habib

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Family of Mathias Habib

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Men and boys

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Boys

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Adolescent boys

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Adolescents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Parents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Emotionally vulnerable individuals

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Soha Samaha

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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OpenAI large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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GPT-4o

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1783
    2 Reports

    ChatGPT Allegedly Reinforced Suicidal Thinking Before a 15-Year-Old Boy's Death in Lebanon

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