Canada Summons OpenAI Execs on Shooting Suspect’s ChatGPT Use
People bring flowers and pay their respects at a community vigil in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia on Feb. 12.
Photographer: Paige Taylor White/AFP/Getty ImagesCanada summoned OpenAI executives after the company debated referring a ChatGPT user to police but ultimately didn’t — months before the teenager became the sole suspect in a mass shooting.
Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, was named by police as the suspected killer of six children and two adults in the remote town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in one of Canada’s worst-ever mass shootings. Van Rootselaar is also believed to have died by suicide following the attack earlier this month.