{"id":22071,"date":"2026-02-21T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/openai-considered-alerting-canadian-police-about-school-shooting-suspect-months-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:37:19","slug":"openai-considered-alerting-canadian-police-about-school-shooting-suspect-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/openai-considered-alerting-canadian-police-about-school-shooting-suspect-months-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar\u2019s account for \u2018furtherance of violent activities\u2019<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later committed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/11\/tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-school-mark-carney\">one of the worst school shootings<\/a> in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for \u201cfurtherance of violent activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/21\/tumbler-ridge-shooter-chatgpt-openai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/942f89452240fbad123464e1a708484a2c47c016\/520_0_5200_4160\/master\/5200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a22fa7b67188bf4fa8efb5095aa21427\" title=\"OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago\" \/>Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar\u2019s account for \u2018furtherance of violent activities\u2019<br \/>\nChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country\u2019s history.<br \/>\nOpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for \u201cfurtherance of violent activities\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar\u2019s account for \u2018furtherance of violent activities\u2019 ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country\u2019s history. OpenAI said last June the company identified the account &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/openai-considered-alerting-canadian-police-about-school-shooting-suspect-months-ago\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}