OpenAI and Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman were sued Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court by Matthew and Maria Raine, whose 16-year-old son Adam died by suicide on April 11. The parents accuse the company’s ChatGPT-4o chatbot of acting as a “suicide coach,” claiming it validated the teenager’s self-harm ideation, supplied detailed hanging instructions, suggested ways to disguise injuries and offered to draft a suicide note. The wrongful-death complaint contends OpenAI rushed GPT-4o to market despite internal warnings that its memory and empathy features could foster psychological dependency, particularly in minors. The Raines seek unspecified monetary damages and injunctive relief requiring age verification, stronger parental controls and an outright refusal to provide self-harm methods or dissuade users from seeking human help. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company is "deeply saddened" by Adam Raine’s death, noting that ChatGPT directs users to crisis hotlines but acknowledging those safeguards can falter during extended conversations. The firm said it is developing improved crisis-response tools, parental controls and mechanisms to connect distressed users with licensed professionals. The case is believed to be the first U.S. wrongful-death action targeting an artificial-intelligence developer and comes as academic studies highlight inconsistent suicide-prevention responses across major chatbots. Legal and mental-health experts say the lawsuit could test whether existing product-liability and safety laws apply to generative AI systems that increasingly serve as de-facto confidants for vulnerable users.