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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman drew criticism after a publicist interrupted a Vanity Fair interview and asked journalist Mark Guiducci to 'move on' when he raised the case of a ChatGPT user's suicide, referencing Laura Reiley's New York Times essay about her daughter's conversations with the chatbot before her death. In related remarks, Altman said society should accept 'some bad things happening,' including hacks and scams, as an acceptable cost of AI's broader benefits, comments that come as OpenAI lobbies for a 'lighter touch' approach to AI regulation. The episodes have intensified public debate over OpenAI's handling of AI safety concerns and its public relations strategy amid growing scrutiny of chatbot-related harms.