San Francisco: Ann Altman, the younger sister of OpenAI’s CEO and founder, Sam Altman, filed a lawsuit in a Missouri federal court on Monday accusing him of sexually abusing her when she was a minor.
The suit, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, said that the abuse occurred in the Altmans’ family home outside St Louis from 1997 to 2006, and started when Ann Altman was three years old.
The lawsuit said Altman had sustained bodily injury and had “experienced PTSD, severe emotional distress, mental anguish and depression, which is expected to continue into the future”, as a result of the abuse.
Altman has long made similar sexual assault claims against her brother on social media platforms such as X. She is represented by an Illinois-based law firm that specialises in sexual assault and harassment cases.
Since OpenAI released the online chatbot ChatGPT in late 2022, Sam Altman has gained widespread fame as the face of the global artificial intelligence boom set off by the chatbot, which can answer questions, write poetry and even generate computer programs. In October, OpenAI completed a new funding deal that valued the company at $US157 billion ($253 billion).
Mahoney said the suit was filed on Monday because of a Missouri statute that allowed survivors of childhood sexual abuse to bring a lawsuit up to 10 years after their 21st birthday. Ann Altman turned 31 on Wednesday.
Source: 12ft