Before Mass Shooting, OpenAI Flagged Teen's Activity
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Key Points:
- OpenAI faced internal debate in June over whether to alert Canadian police about threatening messages from Jesse Van Rootselaar, who later carried out a deadly school shooting in British Columbia.
- The company decided not to contact authorities, citing that the messages did not meet their threshold for a "credible and imminent" danger, and instead banned Van Rootselaar's account.
- Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old trans woman, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted injury after the shooting that killed eight people and injured at least 25 others.
- OpenAI is now cooperating with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation and reviewing its referral system to improve responses to potential threats.
- British Columbia officials expressed concern over OpenAI
