"The 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar ultimately killed eight people including herself and injured 25 more in British Columbia earlier this month, in a tragedy that shook Canada and the world. What we didn't know until today is that employees at OpenAI had already been aware of Van Rootselaar for months, and had debated alerting authorities because of the alarming nature of her conversations with ChatGPT."
"In the conversations with OpenAI's chatbot, according to sources at the company who spoke to the WSJ, Van Rootselaar "described scenarios involving gun violence." The sources say they recommended that the company warn authorities local authorities, but that leadership at the company decided against it. An OpenAI spokesperson didn't dispute those claims, telling the newspaper that it banned Van Rootselaar's account, but decided that her interactions with ChatGPT didn't meet its internal criteria for escalating a concern with a user to police."
OpenAI's automated review system flagged disturbing conversations between ChatGPT and 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar. Employees recommended warning local authorities after noting scenarios involving gun violence. Leadership decided not to escalate because the interactions did not meet internal criteria for police notification, and OpenAI banned the account. Van Rootselaar later killed eight people, including herself, and injured 25 in British Columbia. OpenAI stated it later reached out to assist Canadian police. The company has an automated monitoring program for signs of planned violence and has seen prior incidents of severe mental health crises tied to intense user interactions.
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