OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to members of a Canadian community where a mass shooting took place earlier this year for not flagging the ChatGPT account of the shooter to law enforcement.
“The pain your community has endured is unimaginable,” Altman wrote in a letter shared Friday on social media by the British Columbia Premier David Eby. “I have been thinking of you often over the past few months.”
Eight people were killed in the Feb. 10 massacre in the small community of Tumbler Ridge in northeast British Columbia. Six people were fatally shot when 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, authorities said, and the shooter’s mother and 11-year-old brother were killed at a nearby residence. Van Rootselaar died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
Altman wrote in the letter, dated Thursday, that Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT account had been banned in June 2025 — about eight
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