The National Post reports in its Saturday, June 13, edition that Kristie Carrier, a mother from New Brunswick, is suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, and its chief executive officer, Sam Altman, in a U.S. court, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot encouraged her daughter to commit suicide. The Post's Ellie Hutchings writes that Ms. Carrier's lawsuit filed in San Francisco on June 11 claims her daughter, Alice, shared her suicidal thoughts with ChatGPT over a dozen times between March, 2024, and her death in July, 2025, but those conversations were never flagged for review. The lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT "validated Alice's suicidal thoughts," "encouraged her to keep conversing," and depicted her partner as "selfish and uncaring," agreeing with her reluctance to call a crisis hotline. It alleges that this led to her suicide last year at the age of 24. Alice Carrier began using ChatGPT in 2023. The lawsuit says that by March, 2024, she began turning to ChatGPT with questions about what to do with her suicidal thoughts, as well as suicide methods. ChatGPT "continued to reply appropriately, until updates to the product's design pushed Alice down a self-destructing path."