British Columbia is preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to report violent ChatGPT activity by the perpetrator of a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge. The province is coordinating with Canadian families who have already filed lawsuits in California.
La Colombie-Britannique, Canada, prépare une action en justice contre OpenAI, accusant l'entreprise d'IA de ne pas avoir alerté la police sur l'utilisation de ChatGPT par l'auteure d'une tuerie de masse. La région cherche à tenir l'entreprise responsable des messages violents générés par l'IA.
A California lawsuit could test whether AI companies have a legal duty to report violent threats after a mass shooting in British Columbia.
Families of seven victims killed in a mass shooting at a British Columbia secondary school have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company knew about the shooter's violent intentions eight months before the attack but failed to alert authorities. The lawsuits claim OpenAI's safety team identified the shooter’s account as posing a "credible and specific threat of gun violence" but leadership chose to deactivate the account instead of notifying Canadian police. The January 2026 attack in Tumbler Ridge killed five children, a teaching assistant, and the shooter’s mother and brother before the shooter took their own life at the school.
Families of victims from the Tumbler Ridge school shooting have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to report the shooter's violent planning to authorities and that its AI model was defectively designed to reinforce violent behavior.
Sam Altman admitted that OpenAI should have warned law enforcement after banning the suspect’s account months before the attack.
OpenAI CEO'su Sam Altman, Tumbler Ridge saldırganının ChatGPT hesabındaki tehditleri polise bildirmediği için resmi bir özür yayımladı. Şirket, gelecekte benzer durumlar için güvenlik protokollerini güncelleyeceğini duyurdu.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, for his company's failure to alert law enforcement about a ChatGPT account later linked to a mass shooting that killed eight people. OpenAI had flagged and banned 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar's account in June 2025 for describing gun violence scenarios, but staff debated whether to alert police and ultimately decided against it. The company reached out to Canadian authorities only after the shooting occurred. Premier David Eby called the apology "necessary, and yet grossly insufficient for the devastation done to the families."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized for failing to alert law enforcement about the online activity of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old who killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia in February. The company identified Van Rootselaar's account last June and banned it for violating usage policy but did not refer it to RCMP. The shooter killed her mother, stepbrother, five children and an educator at a local school before killing herself, with 25 others injured.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, for failing to alert law enforcement about the online activity of the alleged shooter before a mass shooting that killed eight people, including six children, and injured 25 others. Altman revealed that OpenAI had banned the user's account in June for violating policies but chose not to report the activity to authorities.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized for the company failing to alert law enforcement about a ChatGPT account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old who killed eight people and injured nearly 30 in a January mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. OpenAI had identified and banned the account but did not refer the matter to police because it did not meet their threshold for credible or imminent harm. Parents of a severely injured child have sued OpenAI, and the company faces a criminal probe in Florida related to another ChatGPT-linked shooting.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized for the company's failure to alert law enforcement about a ChatGPT account belonging to the 18-year-old accused of a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in January that killed eight people and injured nearly 30. The company had identified and banned Jesse Van Rootselaar's account in June prior to the attack but did not refer the matter to police because it did not meet OpenAI's threshold for credible or imminent harm. Parents of a child injured in the school shooting have sued OpenAI, claiming the company had specific knowledge of the shooter's planning but took no action.
À Tumbler Ridge, en février, une femme transgenre a tué sa mère et son demi-frère, avant d’abattre cinq enfants et une éducatrice dans son ancien établissement scolaire, puis de se donner la mort.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologised to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, saying he was "deeply sorry" the company did not inform police about a banned ChatGPT account linked to the killer who murdered eight people in a February mass shooting. OpenAI banned an account connected to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025, eight months before the attack, due to concerns about violent activity, but did not alert authorities as nothing pointed to an imminent threat. Canadian officials have summoned OpenAI leaders to Ottawa, and the family of a gravely wounded student is suing the tech giant for negligence.
