{"id":1019464,"date":"2026-07-08T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019464"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:24:49","slug":"canada-province-preparing-lawsuit-against-openai-over-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/canada-province-preparing-lawsuit-against-openai-over-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada province preparing lawsuit against OpenAI over school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Columbia said Tuesday it was preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI over the company&#8217;s failure to report violent ChatGPT activity by the person who committed a mass school shooting in the western Canadian province. <\/p>\n<p>OpenAI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025, months before the 18-year-old transgender woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny mining town of Tumbler Ridge. <\/p>\n<p>Canadian families impacted by the February shooting have already filed lawsuits against the US tech giant in a California court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Columbia said Tuesday it was preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI over the company&#8217;s failure to report violent ChatGPT activity by the person who committed a mass school shooting in the western Canadian province. OpenAI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025, months before the 18-year-old transgender woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny mining town of Tumbler Ridge. Canadian families impacted by the February shooting have already filed lawsuits against the US tech giant in a California court.<\/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-1019464","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\/1019464","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=1019464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019490,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019464\/revisions\/1019490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}