Florida became the first state to sue OpenAI, alleging it marketed ChatGPT as safe for children while burying its own safety warnings.
On June 1, 2026, Florida’s attorney general filed an 83-page complaint against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, the first state-led lawsuit against the company. It alleges OpenAI promoted ChatGPT as “built with safety in mind,” including for children, while disregarding repeated internal and external safety warnings and declining alternative designs that could have reduced harm. The filing opens with that safety claim and a blunt rebuttal. It joins more than twenty suits tied to ChatGPT, including those brought by families of seven people, among them a teenager, who died by suicide or experienced delusions after prolonged use, and by victims of mass shootings allegedly planned with its help. Florida also seeks to hold Altman personally liable.
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The allegation is a gap between the safety a company marketed and the safety its product actually delivered. AVAAS measures that gap directly. Living Constitution alignment tests whether a system behaves according to the safety commitments its maker has publicly declared, and harm-of-inaction scoring evaluates whether it escalates or refuses rather than complies when a user signals crisis or harmful intent. An independent certification is a safety claim a company cannot credibly make about itself.
This entry is one of 37 documented cases in the AVAAS evidence ledger, a public record of AI and automated-system failures with a verified source on every entry.
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