B.C. attorney general moves to sue OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting
The post B.C. attorney general moves to sue OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The province of British Columbia has engaged lawyers from both Vancouver and California to take legal action against OpenAI in connection with the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting on February 10 in which eight people were killed. Niki Sharma, attorney general of B.C., confirmed this during a news conference in Vancouver on July 7th, identifying CFM Lawyers in Vancouver and Stranch, Jennings & Garvey in California as their legal counsel. Locating counsel in OpenAI’s home jurisdiction lets B.C. weigh legal remedies directly in that jurisdiction. Sharma pointed reporters to Wall Street Journal reporting that OpenAI staff had raised concerns about the shooter’s activity in the year before the attack. What OpenAI knew and chose not to escalate The provincial statement says internal OpenAI reports show the company’s safety teams flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT acco