{"id":1004996,"date":"2026-04-27T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004996"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:28:27","slug":"sam-altman-apologises-after-openai-failed-to-alert-police-before-tumbler-ridge-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/sam-altman-apologises-after-openai-failed-to-alert-police-before-tumbler-ridge-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman apologises after OpenAI failed to alert police before Tumbler Ridge killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologising that his company didn&#8217;t alert law enforcement about the online behaviour of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. <\/p>\n<p>In the letter posted Friday, Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am deeply story that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June,&#8221; Altman said. &#8220;While I know words can never be enough, I believe an apology is necessary to recognise the harm and irreversible loss your community has suffered.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologising that his company didn&#8217;t alert law enforcement about the online behaviour of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. In the letter posted Friday, Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community. &#8220;I am deeply story that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June,&#8221; Altman said. &#8220;While I know words can never be enough, I believe an apology is necessary to recognise the harm and irreversible loss your community has suffered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005022,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004996\/revisions\/1005022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}