The Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings in an open letter [PDF] cited "the heartbreaking death by suicide of one young Californian after he had prolonged interactions with an OpenAI chatbot" as evidence that "whatever safeguards were in place did not work."

ChatGPT is also said to have contributed to a recent murder-suicide in Connecticut, though the victims were adults.

Expressing his horror upon hearing that children have been harmed by interacting with chatbots, Bonta said that he and Jennings have been reviewing the proposed restructuring of OpenAI, scrutiny [

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