OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/STK201_SAM_ALTMAN_CVIRGINIA_C.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/story/sam-altman-exclusive-interview-part-1?">Sam Altman's interview with <em>Vanity Fair</em>'s Mark Guiducci</a> after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she'd like to "move on" to another topic.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The interruption came shortly after Guiducci asked Altman if he knew who Laura Reiley is, a journalist who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html">wrote an essay for <em>The New York Times</em></a> about her daughter's conversations with ChatGPT before she took her own life. "Her daughter committed suicide after speaking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT did not tell her to kill herself-," G …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004827/openai-sam-altman-vanity-fair-interview-pr">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>