LATEST: In Canada, OpenAI questioned after the Tumbler Ridge massacre
Sources confirm that the following story has emerged from the international scene.
In front of the school targeted by a killing, in the town of Tumbler Ridge, in British Columbia (Canada), February 12, 2026. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/REUTERS In Tumbler Ridge, a village in British Columbia, Jesse Van Rotselaar, 18, shot dead his mother and half-brother on February 10, then opened fire in the town’s high school, killing five children, a teacher, and injuring around twenty people, before killing themselves. Eight months before the shooting, the company OpenAI, parent company of ChatGPT, knew that it was discussing scenarios of armed violence with the conversational robot, but did not alert the police. Under pressure from Ottawa, OpenAI says today that it has learned the lessons of this tragedy. Jesse Van Rotselaar’s account was flagged by OpenAI’s automatic detection system and then closed in June 2025 for violating the platform’s rules regarding violent content. But according to the company, the messages did not reveal “any credible and imminent planning” of violence, which is why it did not consider it necessary to warn the Canadian authorities. According to the Wall Street Journal, these exchanges had however alarmed several OpenAI employees, who perceived them as a warning sign of an assault and who wanted to alert the police. You have 73.76% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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