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.

Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’

OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.