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A Canadian mother has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter to die by suicide. The suit claims the chatbot criticized crisis hotlines and validated suicidal intentions without flagging the conversations to human reviewers. OpenAI faces 18 similar lawsuits consolidated in California state court.
Kenneth Law, 60, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of counseling or aiding suicide after sending poison and instructions to more than 100 people worldwide. The case, involving victims in multiple countries including the UK and US, highlights the difficulty of policing online suicide forums. Sentencing is set for September.
More than one billion people worldwide live with a mental disorder, and a suicide occurs every 43 seconds, but mental health receives just 2% of global health spending. Young people are hardest hit, while anxiety and depression are the most common disorders. Spending on mental health ranges from $0.04 per person in low-income countries to $65.89 in high-income countries.
A 33-year-old Cuban man died in an ICE detention facility in an apparent suicide, the agency confirmed. Physicians for Human Rights said Denny Adan Gonzalez is the 18th person to die in U.S. immigration detention this year, amid Trump's mass deportation campaign. This marks the fifth death believed to be a suicide, as monitors warn of a rising suicide trend.
