Lawyers for Robert Morales’s family said chatbot ‘may have advised the shooter’ on how to carry out shooting
The family of a man who was killed at Florida State University last year plans to sue ChatGPT and its parent organization, OpenAI, for allegedly telling the accused gunman how to carry out the mass shooting.
Lawyers for the family of Robert Morales wrote in a statement they had learned the shooter was in “constant communication with ChatGPT” ahead of the shooting, and that the chatbot “may have advised the shooter how to commit these heinous crimes”.
Morales was a former high school football coach who, at the time of the shooting on 17 April 2025, was working at Florida State as the university dining program manager. He was 57. His obituary described him as “a man of quiet brilliance and many gifts”.
“Robert’s life was ended by what can only be described as an act of violence and hate. He should be with us today,” the obituary said. “But if Robert were here he would not want us to dwell in anger. He would want us to focus on the small, steady acts of love that defined him and that keep him with us now.”
