Chicago Business Attorney Blog
On June 1, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page civil complaint against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in Highlands County Circuit Court. Florida became the first state in the United States to sue the maker of ChatGPT over the alleged safety failures of its product.
The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of knowingly releasing a dangerous product, suppressing internal safety warnings, marketing ChatGPT as safe for children without adequate safeguards, and collecting minors’ data without meaningful parental oversight. It seeks to hold Sam Altman personally liable for what it describes as his utter disregard for the risk to human life caused by his conduct as CEO.
OpenAI is a $300 billion company. It has some of the best lawyers in the country. It will defend this case aggressively and the outcome is genuinely uncertain.