The parents of a teenage boy who died by suicide are suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, alleging that the chatbot helped their son “explore suicide methods.” The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, marks the first time parents have directly accused the company of wrongful death.

Messages included in the complaint show 16-year-old Adam Raine opening up to the chatbot about his lack of emotion following the death of his grandmother and his dog. The young man was also going through a tough time after being kicked off his high school’s basketball team and experiencing a flare-up of a medical condition in the fall that made in-person school attendance difficult and prompted a switch to an online school program, according to the New York Times . Starting in September 2024, Adam began using Ch

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