Teacher, students sue OpenAI over deadly school shooting: ‘Product that encouraged a deranged teen’

More victims from the deadly Canadian school shooting in February are suing OpenAI, alleging the ChatGPT-maker could have stopped the massacre by alerting police to the trans teen shooter’s troubling messages.

A new round of lawsuits filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday builds on seven cases from April, in which families of victims killed in the shooting accused OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of prioritizing profits over safety.

Jesse Van Rootselaar is the 18-year-old suspected shooter in the Tumbler Ridge attack, accused of killing five children and one adult in the school and severely wounding two more students, including a 12-year-old girl living with permanent cognitive and physical disabilities.

The new lawsuits were filed by people who witnessed the shooting – one of the deadliest in Canada in decades – at the British Columbia mining town’s secondary school, alleging they will forever live with trauma because of OpenAI’s negligence.

“The children and teachers at Tumbler Ridge woke up thinking they were going to a normal day of school. Hours later, they found themselves in a war zone,” Jay Edelson, the lawyer for victims of the shooting, told The Post in a statement.