The U.S. Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center (OpenAI) said that in the months before the Table Ridge school shooting in British Columbia, Canada, the gunman interacted with the ChatGPT chatbot, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement.
According to people familiar with the situation, gunman Jesse van Rutselaar described scenes involving gun violence while using ChatGPT in June 2025 and was flagged by the automated review system. Some OpenAI employees interpreted Rutselaar's behavior as a sign of potential real-world violence and urged company leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement, but OpenAI leaders ultimately decided not to contact authorities.
An OpenAI spokesperson said the company banned Rutselal's account but determined that its activity did not meet the standards for reporting to law enforcement "which constitute a credible and imminent risk of serious bodily harm to another person."
On February 10, local time, a school shooting occurred in British Columbia, Canada. Nine people, including the suspect, have been killed and more than 25 others injured. (Headquarters reporter Zhang Yingzhe)