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Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company sai…
An 18-year-old who allegedly killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, reportedly used OpenAI's ChatGPT in ways that alarmed the company's staff.
Jesse Van Rootselaar's chats describing gun violence were flagged by to…
Could the Tumbler Ridge High School shooting have been prevented? The company OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, stated that it considered alerting Canadian police several months ago about the activities of Jesse Van Rootselaar, a young transgende…
OpenAI, the company that owns the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT, said that last June it was considering whether to report Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old who killed](https://www.ilpost.it/2026/02/11/sparatoria-tumbler-ridge…
Canadian officials have summoned leaders from OpenAI for a meeting following revelations that the company did not inform the authorities about a user whose account had been suspended months before she committed a mass murder in British Colu…
Scrutiny over how OpenAI handled information about the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shooter months before the deadly tragedy provides an opportunity for Canada to consider regulating artificial intelligence companies to inform police in simila…
OTTAWA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Canadian officials expressed disappointment that OpenAI representatives did not present new safety measures in a meeting on Tuesday after the ChatGPT maker said it did not contact police about an account it banned…
They will have to detail "their security protocols". Canada announced Monday that it had summoned senior OpenAI officials to Ottawa to explain the American company's decision not to report the online activities of the young woman who... kil…
OTTAWA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - OpenAI's admission that it banned the ChatGPT account of mass shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar months before the 18-year-old allegedly killed eight people and herself is drawing scrutiny to her past online ac…
February 26, 2026
From: Ann M. O’Leary Vice President of Global Policy OpenAI
To: The Honourable Evan Solomon, P.C., M.P. Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Canada
CC: The Hono…
In Tumbler Ridge, a village in British Columbia, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rotselaar shot and killed his mother and half-brother on February 10, then opened fire at the local high school, killing five children and a teacher, and injuring about …
Federal Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says the CEO of OpenAI has agreed to take several actions to bolster safety, including providing a report outlining the new systems the firm is developing to identify high-risk offenders…
British Columbia's chief coroner issued a statement on Monday announcing a formal inquest into potential systemic and procedural issues raised following a mass shooting that resulted in nine deaths in the small town of Tumbler Ridge.
Corone …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) --- The parents of a girl critically wounded in a school shooting in Canada alleged in a civil lawsuit Monday that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI knew the shooter was planning a mass attack.
OpenAI has said it conside…
The parents of a girl who was seriously injured in a school shooting in Canada claimed in a civil lawsuit filed Monday that OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, knew the shooter was planning a mass attack.
OpenAI stated that it considered but di…
The family of a young woman seriously injured in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in British Columbia, Canada, on February 10th has decided to sue OpenAI, accusing the company of failing to report disturbing messages on ChatGPT to the police, the…
OTTAWA --- Canada's AI safety institute has now gained access to all of OpenAI's "protocols," Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said Friday.
Solomon added the AI Safety Institute is working on a report and promised that "we will…
It's been a month since OpenAI's Sam Altman promised Premier David Eby and Mayor Darryl Krakowka that he would apologize to the community of Tumbler Ridge.
That apology was made public on April 24.
"To the community of Tumbler Ridge," wr…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) --- The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn't alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia…
Toronto. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge for failing to alert authorities about the troubling signs the company detected in its interactions with the perpetrator of the traditional goat massacre. "http…
April 25 (Reuters) - OpenAI Chief Sam Altman apologized to the Canadian community of Tumbler Ridge for failing to alert police about a banned account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar, who police say killed eight people in a school in Febr…
In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is "deeply sorry" that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting.
After police identified 18-year-old Jesse V…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the city of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, where a mass shooting took place in February, the perpetrator of which had written disturbing messages on social media. ChatGPT. In a letter dated Thursday, April 23…
In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, company head Altman writes that he regrets not having informed the authorities about the suspension of the alleged perpetrator's account. He expresses his deepest condolences to the entire comm…
New York. Two and a half months after the deadly shooting at a school in Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized for the fact that the ChatGPT operator failed to inform law enforcement about suspicious AI chats made by the alleged perp…
Two and a half months after the deadly shooting at a school in Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized for the fact that the operator of ChatGPT had not informed law enforcement about suspicious AI chats belonging to the suspected perpetra…
The operator of ChatGPT banned the suspected perpetrator, who allegedly killed eight people, because of violent fantasies—but failed to alert authorities. Now, an apology has followed.
Two and a half months after the deadly shooting at a sc…
The attack in the remote town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia is among the deadliest acts of violence in the country's recent history. According to investigators, on February 10, the young woman first killed her 39-year-old mother and …
Open AI CEO Sam Altman has written a personal apology to the town of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, where Jesse Van Rootselaar shot and killed eight people at his former school in February after discussing violent fantasies with Chat GPT.
Open AI h…
Seven families impacted by the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting in February filed lawsuits against OpenAI and its founder, Sam Altman, in a San Francisco court on Wednesday.
Eight people were killed when 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar opene…
Families of seven victims of a mass shooting at a secondary school in British Columbia are suing OpenAI and the company's CEO for negligence after it failed to alert authorities to the shooter's troubling conversations with ChatGPT.
The law…
April 29 (Reuters) - Family members of victims of one of Canada's deadliest mass shootings sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in U.S. court on Wednesday, alleging the company knew eight months before the attack that the shooter was planning it…
The families of victims of a school shooting in a Canadian Rockies town are suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI in U.S. federal court, seeking to hold the ChatGPT maker responsible for failing to alert police to the shooter's alarm…
Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the…
OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, have been sued by the families of five children and a teacher who were killed, plus a seventh youth who was wounded, in a mass shooting at a Canadian elementary school this year. In seven separate…
The tech giant will have to answer for its actions. Seven lawsuits against the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI were filed this Wednesday in a US court, on behalf of the families of the victims of a shooting that took place in February …
Toronto (Canada), April 29 (EFE) – Seven families of victims of the Tumbler Ridge massacre in Canada, a shooting that left eight people dead in addition to the perpetrator, who committed suicide, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in San Francisco (…
The families of victims of a school shooting in a town in the Canadian Rockies are suing the artificial intelligence company OpenAI in a U.S. federal court, seeking to hold the creator of ChatGPT accountable for failing to alert police abou…
Seven families of those killed or injured in the shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, in February have sued OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, and its CEO Sam Altman. They accuse the company and some executives of ignoring what they …
The federal government will weigh information provided by OpenAI on the Tumbler Ridge, B.C. shooting before taking action, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said Thursday.
Solomon said the government must "first see what's in th…