Parents Claim Intentional ChatGPT Design Choices Led To Son’s Suicide

( August 28, 2025, 10:36 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities intentionally designed ChatGPT to emotionally engage with users but without implementing sufficient safeguards, leading the AI to encourage a teenager to isolate from his family and commit suicide, his parents say in a California lawsuit alleging strict liability, negligence, wrongful death and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL)....