{"id":19576,"date":"2026-04-25T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openais-sam-altman-apologizes-for-not-reporting-chatgpt-account-of-tumbler-ridge-suspect-to-police\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:55:54","slug":"openais-sam-altman-apologizes-for-not-reporting-chatgpt-account-of-tumbler-ridge-suspect-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openais-sam-altman-apologizes-for-not-reporting-chatgpt-account-of-tumbler-ridge-suspect-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect to police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Two months following the deadly shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI&rsquo;s Sam Altman has formally apologized for not informing police of the alarming ChatGPT conversations seen with the suspect&rsquo;s account. Before the incident, OpenAI banned the account belonging to the alleged shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, for violating its usage policy due to potential for real-world violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&ldquo;I am deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June,&rdquo; Altman wrote in the letter. &ldquo;While I know words can never be enough, I believe an apology is necessary to recognize the harm and irreversible loss your community has suffered.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Altman noted in the letter, which was published in full by <em>Tumbler RidgeLines<\/em>, that he spoke with both Darryl Krakowa, Tumbler Ridge&rsquo;s mayor, and David Eby, the British Columbia premier, and agreed that a &ldquo;public apology was necessary, but that time was also needed to respect the community as you grieved.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_dh9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_lh9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Eby, who also highlighted Altman&rsquo;s letter in his post on X, agreed that the &ldquo;apology is necessary,&rdquo; but added that it was &ldquo;grossly insufficient for the devastation done to the families of Tumbler Ridge.&rdquo; Moving ahead, Altman reaffirmed in the letter that OpenAI would &ldquo;find ways to prevent tragedies like this in the future&rdquo; and work with all levels of government to prevent something like this from happening again. Altman&rsquo;s latest commitment builds on the previous letter from OpenAI&rsquo;s vice president of global policy Ann O&rsquo;Leary, who said the company would notify authorities if it finds &ldquo;imminent and credible&rdquo; threats in ChatGPT conversations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>OpenAI&rsquo;s Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect to police<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months following the deadly shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI&rsquo;s Sam Altman has formally apologized for not informing police of the alarming ChatGPT conversations seen with the suspect&rsquo;s account. Before the incident, OpenAI banned the account belonging to the alleged shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, for violating its usage policy due to potential for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openais-sam-altman-apologizes-for-not-reporting-chatgpt-account-of-tumbler-ridge-suspect-to-police\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;OpenAI&#8217;s Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect to police&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}