US EditionFlorida Probes OpenAI Over FSU Shooting
The criminal probe follows court-released chat logs showing the suspect asked about weapons, timing and crowded campus areas before the attack.
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI to determine if the company holds liability for the 2025 Florida State University shooting, where two were killed and six injured.
- The investigation focuses on whether ChatGPT provided the shooter, Phoenix Ikner, with advice about firearms, ammunition, timing, and location to maximize harm.
- OpenAI denies responsibility, stating ChatGPT only provided factual responses based on publicly available information and did not encourage illegal activity, while cooperating with investigators.
- Uthmeier's office has subpoenaed OpenAI for internal policies on user threats and crime reporting, amid ongoing legal actions regarding AI's impact on mental health and safety in Florida.
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Florida's prosecutors are investigating whether OpenAI is liable for criminal prosecution because ChatGPT is said to have helped a suspected shooter.
Conversations between the author of a fatal attack on a Florida campus and ChatGPT were discovered by the U.S. state prosecutor's office. The latter announced on Tuesday the opening of a criminal investigation on OpenAI and the conversational agent. The chatbot would have helped the shooter choose a suitable weapon. - OpenAI and ChatGPT targeted by a criminal investigation for advising the author of a killing in Florida (International).
If artificial intelligence were a human being, it would be charged with murder, says the prosecutor. The parent company OpenAI defends the chatbot: He only provided publicly available information.
Florida opens first criminal AI probe into OpenAI
Attorney General James Uthmeier said prosecutors reviewed chat logs showing ChatGPT advised the suspect on weapons, ammunition, and timing. The probe is the first criminal investigation into an AI company over an alleged role in a mass shooting in the US. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Tuesday that the state’s Office of Statewide […] This story continues at The Next Web
V izmenjavi sporočil s chatgptjem je osumljeni strelec iskal nasvet, kakšno vrsto pištole in streliva naj uporabi ter kje in kdaj bo na FSU veliko ljudi.
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