WV’s Attorney General McCuskey joins Iowa, other states to sue OpenAI

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  • By Robin Opsahl | West Virginia Watch
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, joined by, from left, fellow state attorneys Kris Kobach of Kansas, JB McCuskey of West Virginia and Mike Hilgers of Nebraska, held a news conference Oct. 14, 2026 at the Iowa State Capitol on state AGs pursuing litigation against OpenAI. 

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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and counterparts from three other states announced plans Wednesday to sue OpenAI in state courts, alleging ChatGPT harmed children and violated each state’s consumer fraud act.

Bird was joined by attorneys general Kris Kobach of Kansas, Mike Hilgers of Nebraska, and JB McCuskey of West Virginia at the Iowa Capitol to announce their planned litigation against the generative artificial intelligence company. Bird quoted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who recently told Politico, “we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.”

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