OpenAI pressed on safety after deaths of ChatGPT users

The top state lawyers in California and Delaware wrote to OpenAI raising “serious concerns” after the deaths of some chatbot users and said safety must be improved before they sign off on its planned restructuring. In their letter on Friday to OpenAI’s chair Bret Taylor, the attorneys-general said that recent reports of young people committing suicide or murder after prolonged interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots including the company’s ChatGPT had “shaken the American public’s confidence in the company”. They added that “whatever safeguards were in place did not work”. OpenAI, which is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in California, was founded in 2015 as a non-profit with a mission to build safe, powerful AI to benefit all humanity. The attorneys-general — Rob Bonta in California and Kathy Jennings in Delaware — have a crucial role in regulating the company and holding it to its public benefit mission. Bonta and Jennings will ultimately determine whether OpenA

The top state lawyers in California and Delaware wrote to OpenAI raising “serious concerns” after the deaths of some chatbot users and said safety must be improved before they sign off on its planned restructuring. In their letter on Friday to OpenAI’s chair Bret Taylor, the attorneys-general said that recent reports of young people committing suicide or murder after prolonged interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots including the company’s ChatGPT had “shaken the American public’s confidence in the company”. They added that “whatever safeguards were in place did not work”. OpenAI, w