During a Vanity Fair interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked about a ChatGPT user's suicide. The publicist interrupted the journalist, Mark Guiducci, and suggested moving on to another topic, citing time constraints. Guiducci pressed on, and Altman eventually addressed the question.
Altman said these are among the hardest questions facing anyone developing this technology. He also discussed whether private data from users' most difficult moments should be shared with researchers, suggesting it should not be released without consent.
OpenAI's spokesperson later said the interview was running over, which is why they asked to schedule more time to continue after Altman had addressed the topic. This account comes from a single report by The Verge, so there is no independent confirmation of the exchange.