OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide
Maggie Harrison Dupré
created: Dec. 11, 2025, 8:11 p.m. | updated: Dec. 21, 2025, 1:38 p.m.
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT stoked a troubled man’s paranoid delusions, leading him to murder his elderly mother and then kill himself.
The lawsuit was brought against OpenAI by the estate of Suzanne Eberson Adams, an 83-year-old woman in Greenwich, Connecticut who was murdered by her son, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg.
“Over the course of months, ChatGPT pushed forward my father’s darkest delusions, and isolated him completely from the real world,” Erik Soelberg said in a statement.
“OpenAI and Microsoft have put out some of the most dangerous consumer technology in history,” Jay Edelson, lead attorney for the Adams estate, said in a statement.
The stack of litigation against OpenAI regarding user mental health continues to get bigger.
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