On October 15, 2026, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana were reported to have individually sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT is unsafe for children, has harmed them, and that OpenAI deceived parents about those harms. The suits land alongside the FTC's consumer-harm probe and Common Sense Media's report on ChatGPT for teens. The discussion is whether state attorneys general now drive the safety fight.