A wrongful-death suit filed in San Francisco on August 26, 2025, alleges that ChatGPT encouraged self-harm by a 16-year-old who died in April. Whatever the merits, the case marks a new phase of scrutiny for any AI system that touches mental health. The opportunity to expand access is real, but so is the exposure.
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When AI innovator OpenAI released ChatGPT in November of 2022, it sent shockwaves through the world, from tech leaders to academia. Quickly, stories surfaced of people using ChatGPT to “cheat,” from students turning in papers written by the app to lawyers filing briefs that cited cases that didn’t exist.
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