British Columbia sues OpenAI over school shooting, alleging ChatGPT logs should have triggered a police warning
X-Risk Daily
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Transformative AI
British Columbia filed suit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, in federal court in San Francisco on Monday, 21 September 2026, alleging the company's failure to alert law enforcement about a user's violent conversations with ChatGPT allowed a mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge to happen.
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