ChatGPT-maker OpenAI safety representatives summoned to Canada after school shooting
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The Canadian government has called representatives of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to Ottawa
TORONTO -- Representatives of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI have been summoned to Ottawa after the company said last week that it considered but didn't alert Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said Monday that he expects the company’s top safety representatives to explain its protocols and how it decides to forward cases to law enforcement when he meets with them on Tuesday.
OpenAI said last June that the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities.”
The San Francisco technology company said that it considered whether to refer the account to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or RCMP, but determined at the time that the account activity didn't meet a threshold for referral to law enforcement. OpenAI banned the account in June for violating its usage policy.
The 18-year-old killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia this month and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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