Forbes December 7, 2025
Lance Eliot

In today’s column, I examine key legal strategies that we can likely expect from AI makers as they fend off lawsuits associated with the use of their AI involving mental health ramifications.

Here’s the deal. You are probably generally aware that a headline-grabbing lawsuit was filed against OpenAI in August of this year. The matter involved the unfortunate self-harm death of a 16-year-old who had been making use of ChatGPT. I’ve previously covered the filed lawsuit (see my initial coverage at the link here).

The mainstay of this additional discussion is that OpenAI recently responded to the lawsuit via a formal legal reply. I will give you key details about that latest filing. The overall legal defense in the filing...

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