OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered apologies to a Canadian community following a mass shooting. He admitted the company failed to alert police about concerning activity linked to the shooter’s ChatGPT account, which had been banned months prior.

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has apologised to a Canadian town devastated by a February mass shooting, saying he was “deeply sorry” the company did not tell police about the killer’s troubling ChatGPT account. OpenAI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025, eight months before the 18-year-old woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny British Columbia mining town of Tumbler Ridge. The account was banned over concerns about usage linked to violent...