What makes these lawsuits structurally different from prior AI harm litigation is the corporate motive allegation. The claim is not that OpenAI's safety systems failed to catch a threat — it is that those systems caught the threat and leadership chose not to act because disclosure would have made public how frequently ChatGPT handles violence-adjacent conversations. That calculation, the suits allege, was weighed against a path to a valuation near $1 trillion. If that allegation survives early motions, every AI company with a monetization roadmap and an internal trust-and-safety operation…