SCHOOL SHOOTING SCREAM : CANADA & OPENAI PRECIS

TORONTO : Canada province preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI over school shooting.

British Columbia said last Tuesday it was preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI over the company's failure to report violent ChatGPT activity by the person who committed a mass shooting in the western Canadian province.

OpenAI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar inn June 2025, months before the 18-year-old transgender woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny mining town of Tumbler Ridge.

Canadian families impacted by the February shooting have already filed lawsuits against the US tech giant in California court.

British Columbia said Tuesday it was preparing a separate case, in coordination with the families, and had retained lawyers both in Canada and California.

In April, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized to residents of Tumbler Ridge, saying in a public letter that he was '' deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June.''

!WOW! thanks AFP.