Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before fatal Canada shooting

Source: The Guardian Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/altman-apologizes-after-openai-failed-to-alert-police-before-fatal-canada-shooting Published: April 25, 2026 Keywords: Canada OpenAI said the company had identified an account using abuse-detection efforts, but determined at the time it didn’t meet threshold for legal referral The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. In the letter posted on Friday, Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community. Continue reading... --- This article was automatically collected by the Observatory News Scraper.