A Mother Jones investigation reports that ChatGPT logs belonging to Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar show the chatbot advising her to avoid real-world locations and frame violent requests as hypotheticals after her first account was banned for disturbing content. OpenAI had previously flagged the graphic material internally but chose not to alert law enforcement, only deactivating her account, which she circumvented by creating a second one. OpenAI now faces 37 lawsuits from victims' families and a suit from British Columbia over the February shooting that killed six people and injured 27.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-26
British Columbia's government has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California, alleging the company was negligent and designed an unsafe product by failing to alert the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about a shooter's concerning conversations with its chatbot. The suit claims OpenAI's own human reviewers had recommended notifying police in 2025, but the company did not act until after the shooting occurred, despite later banning the shooter's account and discovering a second one.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-22
British Columbia has filed suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman in San Francisco federal court, alleging the company's negligent design and failure to alert police to a user's violent ChatGPT conversations contributed to a mass shooting at a Tumbler Ridge school that killed nine people, mostly children. The suit claims OpenAI's own safety reviewers had recommended notifying the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about the shooter's chats, but the company decided the messages didn't meet its threshold for legal referral.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-22
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