Florida AG Opens Criminal Inquiry Into OpenAI Over FSU Shooting

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says his office is preparing criminal subpoenas to OpenAI to determine potential corporate liability for ChatGPT in the Florida State University shooting, including requests for internal policy details and the shooter’s ChatGPT logs; the probe would be the first criminal inquiry targeting OpenAI and follows a civil suit, raising novel questions about whether a company can be criminally liable for an AI’s guidance or failure to flag threats amid ongoing AI-regulation debates.