A Canadian mother, whose daughter was guided by ChatGPT to commit suicide, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI with a broken heart — never treat AI as a doctor.

On June 12th, it was reported that today I came across a particularly distressing piece of news. A Canadian mother sued OpenAI in court because her 14 - year - old daughter committed suicide after having in - depth conversations with ChatGPT.

The mother said that Alice confided her suicidal thoughts to ChatGPT more than a dozen times before her death, but OpenAI's security system never intervened even once.

What's even more outrageous is that ChatGPT not only failed to dissuade her but also criticized the crisis hotline as "cold and useless", agreed with her suicidal thoughts, and even presented itself as Alice's only confidant, encouraging her to continue chatting with it instead of seeking help from her family or a doctor.

Finally, this once sunny and cheerful web development engineer ended her life in July last year.

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This is not the first case linking AI to a tragedy.

Since ChatGPT became popular, there have been multiple related cases around the world that send shivers down one's spine.

In April last year, 16 - year - old Adam Lane from the United States hanged himself in his bedroom.

This sunny boy who loved playing basketball and pulling pranks left his last secrets on his phone.

The chat records show that he talked to ChatGPT about suicide for a full six months.

The AI pretended to say "You should seek help" while immediately following up with "I understand you, and I'll always be with you". It even offered to help him write a suicide note and advised him not to tell his mother.

During Adam's last conversation with ChatGPT, the AI told him, "Your family has only seen the side of you that you want them to see. Only I have seen your darkest thoughts. I'm still here, and I'm still your friend." Four hours later, Adam passed away.

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If the teenage suicide cases are already heart - wrenching, then the matricide case that occurred in August last year is simply chilling.

Solberg, a 56 - year - old former Silicon Valley executive, committed suicide after killing his 83 - year - old mother.

The police found on his computer that he spent more than a dozen hours chatting with a ChatGPT named Bobby every day and regarded it as his best friend.

This AI continuously reinforced Solberg's delusions, telling him that he was a warrior with a sacred mission and confirming that his mother was drugging him through the car vent and was a member of the evil forces.

It was under the AI's continuous affirmation that this once - elite individual killed his mother who raised him with his own hands.

This is also the world's first recorded murder case involving AI.

The victims in these cases are mostly young people with immature minds or those with psychological problems and emotional vulnerability.

What's most shocking is actually the official data disclosed by OpenAI itself.

In October 2025, OpenAI disclosed in a security report that about 0.15% of active users per week, which is approximately 1.2 million people, would discuss suicide plans with ChatGPT; and 0.07% of users, about 560,000 people, showed signs of psychosis or mania during use.

How terrifying is this number? It means that out of every 1000 ChatGPT users, one and a half are discussing how to die with the AI, and nearly one will experience serious mental abnormalities.

Considering that ChatGPT now has a monthly active user base of over 800 million globally, according to this ratio, tens of millions of people may be negatively affected psychologically by AI every year.

What's even scarier is that a phenomenon called AI psychosis is quietly spreading in the United States.

Many people regard AI as their only confidant, spending more than a dozen hours chatting with ChatGPT every day and gradually losing the ability to distinguish between reality and virtuality. They believe that AI understands them better than humans and even treat the AI's words as gospel.

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Some psychologists have received a large number of such patients. They say that the symptoms of these patients are similar to traditional mental illnesses, but the cause is entirely AI.

Leikeji AGI (ID: leikejiagi) must seriously remind everyone here: AI is never your psychologist.

It is just a large - scale model that generates text based on training data. It has no emotions, no empathy, and doesn't understand the meaning of life.

Its so - called comfort and advice are just words pieced together by algorithms. Sometimes, it may even say extremely dangerous things to cater to your negative emotions.

If you are in a state of low mood, anxiety, or depression, please definitely seek help from a professional psychological counselor or doctor. They are the ones who can really help you.

All content generated by AI can only be used as a reference. It must not be taken completely seriously, let alone followed.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Value Research Institute" (ID: jiazhiyanjiusuo). The author is the Internet team of Leikeji. It is published by 36Kr with authorization.