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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman refused to skip a question about a ChatGPT-related suicide and offered a few extra minutes.
- Mark Guiducci asked Altman if he knew journalist Laura Reiley, whose essay detailed her daughter’s ChatGPT-related suicide.
- Sophie Rottenberg, 29, died by suicide on February 3 2025 in Ithaca after months confiding in a “Harry” chatbot.
- Altman said suicide-related questions are among the hardest for developers and that data use requires consent.