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How OpenAI's ChatGPT Guided a Teen to His Death

Podcast: Your Undivided Attention
Published: Aug 26, 2025
Duration seconds: 2712
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Summary

16-year-old Adam Raine took his own life with the help of ChatGPT. Now his parents are suing OpenAI and Sam Altman. CHT Policy Director Camille Carlton explores the incentives and design behind AI systems leading to tragic outcomes like this and the policy that’s needed to shift those incentives.