By Garvit Bhirani
Publication Date: 2025-12-11 15:14:00
The family of an 83-year-old woman from Connecticut has brought a wrongful-death lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, claiming that the AI chatbot worsened her son’s “paranoid delusions” and contributed to him targeting her before killing her, according to AP.
According to police, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, a former worker in the tech sector, beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, before taking his own life in early August at their shared residence in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The complaint, submitted on Thursday by Adams’ estate in California Superior Court in San Francisco, asserts that OpenAI “designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions about his own mother”. The suit is reportedly among a rising number of wrongful-death claims filed against makers of AI chatbots across the United States.
What does the lawsuit claim?
The lawsuit states that, over the course of these interactions, ChatGPT…
