Families sue OpenAI for not flagging shooter’s ChatGPT chats before Canadian school massacre

Families of seven victims from a British Columbia high school shooting filed federal lawsuits in San Francisco accusing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of negligence after the company’s safety team flagged the shooter’s ChatGPT account eight months before the attack but did not alert Canadian authorities, instead deactivating the account. The suits allege that leadership overruled safety warnings to protect the company’s survival and IPO, contributing to the tragedy. OpenAI says it has strengthened safeguards and escalation procedures since, and this case is part of a broader wave of AI-safety lawsuits.