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Kansas Attorney General: OpenAI has 'prioritized profit' over consumer protection
In a short CNBC interview, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach describes the suits that eight states filed against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT is unsafe for children and consumers were misled, and says state consumer-protection law carries penalties and can force changes in practice.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
Eight states are suing OpenAI over what ChatGPT does with children, and Kobach says the worst harms are probably under-reported.
For lawmakers
Existing consumer-protection statutes, used against tobacco companies, are being applied to chatbots without new AI law.
The question it raises
Frames sycophantic, trust-building chatbots as a consumer-deception problem and asks who answers for harm to minors.
In their own words
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“This lawsuit was filed on Wednesday. Simultaneously, eight states, a bipartisan group, by the way, brought suit in eight different state courts, all of us alleging that Open AI has essentially prioritized profit over protecting consumers and has misled consumers about the safety of these AI chatbots for children.”
“these are the same laws that were used to sue Big Tobacco in the 1990s.”
The record
- Questions
- Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · How is AI changing childhood, health and daily life?
- People
- Kris Kobach (Speaks, Kansas Attorney General)
- What we read
- We could read only part of the source.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 17, 2026, via
yt-cnbc-television(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- CNBC Television, “Kansas Attorney General: OpenAI has 'prioritized profit' over consumer protection”, October 16, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/cnbc-2026-10-16-kobach-openai-lawsuit