India, June 11 -- A Canadian woman has sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, alleging that its AI chatbox ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to commit suicide. Kristie Carrier filed the lawsuit in a US court on Thursday in San Francisco.

She claimed her daughter repeatedly revealed suicidal ideation to ChatGPT more than a dozen times before her death. The filing says OpenAI's safety systems did not flag the conversations for human review or stop them at any point.

Instead, the lawsuit says the chatbot sometimes criticised her partner and crisis helplines, supported her emotional state, and encouraged her to keep talking. It also claims these interactions played a role in her death last year at the age of 24.

The lawsuit states t...