The Cost of Not Testing Your AI
- Katy Kelly
- Feb 17
- 1 min read
In January 2026, Character.AI and Google settled five wrongful death lawsuits. OpenAI is facing eight more, with estimated damages per case ranging from $20M–$100M.
Every single one of these tragedies was preventable.
We mapped each lawsuit to its root cause, and the testing capability that would have prevented it. Here’s what we found:
