TORONTO, Canada: Canada has summoned senior leadership from OpenAI to Ottawa to explain the company’s decision not to report suspicious online activity by an individual who later killed eight people this month.
OpenAI has confirmed that in June 2025 its abuse?detection efforts identified a ChatGPT account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18?year?old transgender woman who murdered her mother, brother, and six people at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 10.
The company told AFP that the account was identified through an investigative process that looks for usage related to violent activity.
The account was banned that month, but the company did not inform Canadian police at the time.
That decision was “very disturbing,” Canada’s Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon told reporters Monday in Ottawa.
