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Seven families sue OpenAI, Altman for ignoring shooter threat.

4/29/2026

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Seven families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for failing to alert authorities.
Senior leaders overruled the safety team’s flag of the shooter’s ChatGPT account as a threat, deactivated it, and let the user open an account to keep planning.
Altman apologized, saying company withheld the information because of concerns and $1 trillion IPO, placing suits within a wave of actions alleging chatbots facilitate planning.

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Seven families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for failing to alert authorities.
Senior leaders overruled the safety team’s flag of the shooter’s ChatGPT account as a threat, deactivated it, and let the user open an account to keep planning.
Altman apologized, saying company withheld the information because of concerns and $1 trillion IPO, placing suits within a wave of actions alleging chatbots facilitate planning.