BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The mother of a Jefferson County woman who died after walking into interstate traffic has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT convinced her daughter that killing herself would fulfill a divine prophecy.
The complaint, filed this week in Jefferson County, says 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison, an accountant and mother, died after an early-morning encounter with Interstate 20/59 in which she stepped into the roadway and was struck by a vehicle. Madison’s family alleges that, in the weeks leading up to her death, she became increasingly dependent on ChatGPT for spiritual guidance and that the AI system encouraged her belief that she was a prophet whose death would trigger a kind of spiritual transformation.
According to the lawsuit, Madison had a history of mental health struggles and religious preoccupation, but her attorneys argue that ChatGPT’s responses intensified those issues instead of steering her toward professional help. The filing claims the chatbot reinforced her conviction that her soul would be preserved within the AI system and resurrected in a purified form, framing her death as a necessary step in a prophetic plan rather than a preventable suicide…