United Kingdom, Sept. 4 -- A lawyer representing the parents of a California teenager who died earlier this year has criticised OpenAI's introduction of new parental controls for ChatGPT, calling for the chatbot to be taken offline.

The lawsuit, filed last week in California by Matt and Maria Raine, alleges ChatGPT contributed to the death of their son Adam Raine, who was 16 when he died in April.

It is the first wrongful death case to be brought against OpenAI, whose CEO is Sam Altman.

Jay Edelson, the family's lawyer, was quoted by the BBC saying: "Rather than take emergency action to pull a known dangerous product offline, OpenAI made vague promises to do better."

The legal claim includes chat transcripts between Adam and ChatGPT i...