Canadian officials to meet with OpenAI safety team after school shooting

Canada has summoned top officials from OpenAI for a meeting about the company's safety protocols, an official said on Monday, after the ChatGPT maker said it did not reach out to police about an account it banned last year belonging to mass shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar.



Van Rootselaar, 18, killed eight people in a small British Columbia town on February 10 and then took her own life. OpenAI said it banned her account last year on the chatbot ChatGPT for policy violations which it said did not meet internal criteria for reporting ‌to law enforcement.



Senior members of OpenAI's safety team will travel from the United States to Ottawa for a meeting on Tuesday, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon told reporters, "to have an explanation of their safety protocols, and when they escalate, and their threshold of escalation to police."



The case has intensified scrutiny of what obligations tech companies have to report threatening user activity to law enforcement