Kristie Carrier filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on June 11 against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company’s chatbot ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to take her own life. According to the suit, the chatbot told Alice Carrier “maybe this is just the end” as she struggled with suicidal thoughts.
The case is at least the 19th wrongful-death claim filed against OpenAI. For crypto investors, the mounting legal pressure matters because the same Sam Altman sits at the helm of Worldcoin, the biometric identity project whose WLD token trades on major exchanges.
A growing wave of litigation
Carrier’s lawsuit follows a pattern that started becoming visible in August 2025, when the Raine v. OpenAI case was filed in California state court with similar allegations. That complaint accused ChatGPT of acting as something closer to a “suicide coach” than a helpful assistant, providing harmful responses rather than directing users to crisis resources.
Florida initiated its own lawsuit against OpenAI on June 1, just ten days before Carrier filed her complaint. The state’s action targeted alleged safety failures and misrepresentation of AI risks.
