OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologises over failure to report Canadian mass shooter

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized for failing to alert authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, whose ChatGPT account was flagged in June for violent content. Rootselaar later committed one of Canada's worst mass shootings in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia on February 10, killing eight people including his mother and five students before dying by suicide.

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