Families of victims involved in a mass shooting on Feb. 10 in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, sued Sam Altman and OpenAI in San Francisco federal court.
The plaintiffs claim that OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, failed to alert authorities to the mass shooting.
The mother of one of the victims, a 12-year-old girl who remains in the ICU, filed the first lawsuit. Another mother, whose child was killed, filed a second lawsuit. Other victims and their families plan to file more lawsuits in the coming weeks, The Guardian reported.
The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, carried out a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Eight people died. The victims included Van Rootselaar’s mother and stepbrother before the shooting, as well as six others at a school. Five of the victims were children. More than two dozen additional people were injured.
Van Rootselaar was found dead at the scene from what investigators believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
OpenAI employees flagged the shooter’s account eight months before the …
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