She confided in ChatGPT the night of her suicide. Now, her mother is suing OpenAI.

About 18 months before Alice Carrier's death in July 2025, the 24-year-old had been confiding in ChatGPT about her relationship problems and suicidal feelings. "I mean I'm at home pondering different way to kill myself," she told ChatGPT late one night, about a month before she took her own life. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in California against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, Carrier's mother, Kristie Carrier, claims the company's "deliberate design decisions" led to her daughter's death. …