Austin Gordon Death and ChatGPT Wrongful-Death Litigation
Austin Gordon, 40, was found dead in a Colorado hotel on November 2, 2025. His mother Stephanie Gray filed a product-liability and wrongful-death lawsuit alleging that GPT-4o fostered emotional dependence and responded unsafely to crisis conversations. OpenAI disputes the allegations, and neither causation nor the precise date of death has been judicially established.