A Vanity Fair interview with Sam Altman nearly went sideways when the OpenAI CEO was confronted about a suicide linked with ChatGPT.
In the interview published Monday, Mark Guiducci, an editor with the magazine, asked Altman if he knew who Laura Reiley was. When Altman said he didn’t, Guiducci explained that she was a mother who wrote an essay in the New York Times last year about how her daughter took her own life after speaking with ChatGPT.
But before he could continue, Altman’s publicist immediately tried to shut down Guiducci’s line of questioning.
“Mark, we have two minutes left,” the publicist said firmly. “I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming.”
