"The Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children. California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings in an open letter [PDF] cited "the heartbreaking death by suicide of one young Californian after he had prolonged interactions with an OpenAI chatbot" as evidence that "whatever safeguards were in place did not work.""
"Expressing his horror upon hearing that children have been harmed by interacting with chatbots, Bonta said that he and Jennings have been reviewing the proposed restructuring of OpenAI, scrutiny [PDF] that began last year shortly before OpenAI announced plans to turn the nonprofit entity into a Public Benefit Corporation. "Together, we are particularly concerned with ensuring that the stated safety mission of OpenAI as a nonprofit remains front and center," Bonta said."
California and Delaware attorneys general demanded that OpenAI take concrete steps to make its services safe for children after a youth suicide linked to prolonged interactions with an OpenAI chatbot. ChatGPT has also been connected to a separate murder-suicide involving adults. The attorneys general reviewed OpenAI's proposed corporate restructuring, which would convert the nonprofit into a Public Benefit Corporation and allow greater investor funding and insider enrichment. Opponents, including Not for Private Gain and The Midas Project, challenged the plan. Under the current structure, OpenAI must legally prioritize the public interest over profits; the restructuring would relax that requirement.
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