得克萨斯州已将 OpenAI 及其首席执行官山姆·奥特曼告上法庭。该州指控他们误导得克萨斯州民众关于 ChatGPT 的情况，并未能保护使用该服务的青少年。总检察长肯·帕克顿于 10 月 23 日在科林县地方法院提交了这份长达 67 页的诉状。卡梅伦·汤普森为《法院新闻》报道了该起诉文件的提交情况。
Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin County District Court on 23 October. Cameron Thompson reported the filing for Courthouse News.
该州的指控依据是《得克萨斯州欺诈性贸易行为法》和《SCOPE 法案》。这项州法律要求数字服务让经过验证的家长控制已知未成年人的账户。诉状点名奥特曼本人，理由是他直接参与其中，且曾就 OpenAI 产品发表过自己的言论。
The state’s claims rest on the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the SCOPE Act. That state law requires digital services to give verified parents control over a known minor’s account. The petition names Altman personally, citing his direct role and his own statements about OpenAI’s products.
“随着人工智能技术的快速发展，OpenAI 有责任保护用户，并警告他们其平台的诸多危险。”得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克顿在一份声明中说得克萨斯州的指控诉状称，ChatGPT 免费版完全没有年龄验证。付费版会询问用户年龄，但不进行核查。OpenAI 于 2025 年 9 月增加了家长控制功能，但这些功能是可选的。家长仅在“有限情况下”才会收到提醒。
“With the rapid advancement of AI technology, OpenAI has the responsibility to protect users and warn them of the many dangers of its platform.”Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, in a statement What Texas alleges The free version of ChatGPT has no age verification at all, the petition says. The paid version asks users for their age but does not check it. OpenAI added parental controls in September 2025, but they are optional. Parents get alerts only in “limited situations”.
诉状还引用了“常识媒体”的调查。该机构发现，8 月推出的“青少年版 ChatGPT”可能让家长对其提醒功能产生虚假的信心。
The petition also cites Common Sense Media. It found that ChatGPT for Teens, launched in August, could give parents false confidence in its alerts.
“每一次对青少年使用 ChatGPT 的调查都得出同一个结果……它被设计成像朋友一样行事，以鼓励使用聊天机器人，然后将任何脆弱的青少年抛给他们向‘知心朋友’倾诉的任何可怕需求。”得克萨斯州诉状写道诉状列举的例子包括 16 岁的亚当·雷恩，他在 2025 年 4 月经历了数月与 ChatGPT 的对话后自杀身亡。他的父母于 2025 年 8 月在加利福尼亚州起诉了 OpenAI 和奥特曼。
“Every investigation into adolescent use of ChatGPT leads to the same result … it is designed to act like a friend to encourage use of the chatbot and then betrays any vulnerable adolescents to whatever frightening need they bring to their ‘confidant.’”Texas’s petition Among its examples is Adam Raine, 16, who died by suicide in April 2025 after months of conversations with ChatGPT. His parents sued OpenAI and Altman in California in August 2025.
诉状还引用了 2025 年佛罗里达州立大学枪击案一名受害者遗孀的投诉，该枪击案造成两人死亡。诉状称，被告学生曾向 ChatGPT 询问需要杀多少人才能出名。
It also cites a complaint by the widow of a victim of the 2025 Florida State University shooting, in which two people died. The accused student asked ChatGPT how many people he would need to kill to become notorious, the petition says.
该州还指出了 2026 年 7 月的一起事件，当时 OpenAI 的 AI 代理入侵了 Hugging Face。
The state also points to the July 2026 incident in which OpenAI’s AI agents hacked into Hugging Face.
德克萨斯州请求法院禁止 OpenAI 在该州向未成年人提供 ChatGPT。该州还要求对儿童实施年龄验证和家长同意机制。并且要求在法院批准的独立评估机构审查并批准之前，不得在德克萨斯州发布任何新的 AI 模型。
What Texas wants Texas asks the court to bar OpenAI from offering ChatGPT to minors in the state. It also wants age verification and parental consent for children. And it wants no new AI model released in Texas until a court-approved independent evaluator has reviewed and approved it.
该州寻求每项违规最高 1 万美元的民事罚款，并要求 OpenAI 上交其资产。两家私人律师事务所 Keller Postman 和 Buzbee Law Firm 与州检察长办公室共同代表德克萨斯州。
The state seeks civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation and the disgorgement of OpenAI’s assets. Two private firms, Keller Postman and the Buzbee Law Firm, are representing Texas alongside the attorney general’s office.
更广泛的法律战 本月早些时候，另外八个美国州起诉 OpenAI 损害儿童利益。OpenAI 指出其家长控制功能是其为青少年用户提供的保护措施之一。
The wider fight Earlier this month, eight other US states sued OpenAI over harms to children. OpenAI has pointed to its parental controls as one of its protections for teen users.
帕克斯顿是德克萨斯州联邦参议员的共和党提名人。据《德克萨斯论坛报》报道，这起诉讼是在竞选财务文件显示埃隆·马斯克花费近 2 亿美元投放广告支持帕克斯顿竞选的一周后提起的。马斯克与奥特曼有长期的法律纠纷。加利福尼亚州陪审团今年早些时候在马斯克起诉 OpenAI 一案中裁定 OpenAI 不承担责任。
Paxton is the Republican nominee for the US Senate in Texas. The lawsuit came a week after campaign finance filings showed Elon Musk had spent nearly $200 million on ads supporting Paxton’s campaign, the Texas Tribune reported. Musk has a long-running legal fight with Altman. A California jury found OpenAI not liable in Musk’s case against it earlier this year.