OpenAI Flagged Canadian Shooting Suspect Months Before Attack — But Didn’t Alert Authorities

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI has acknowledged that employees internally discussed alerting law enforcement months before an 18-year-old transgender woman went on to commit a mass shooting in Canada.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Jesse Van Rootselaar’s interactions with ChatGPT in June included detailed fantasies of gun violence over several days.

The posts were flagged by OpenAI’s automated moderation system and escalated for internal review.

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