Survivors of the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada file 30 more lawsuits against OpenAI, now alleging aiding and abetting
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A court will decide where the line lies for an SI company's responsibility for what a user writes to a chatbot, and the answer will determine how assistants react to dangerous conversations.
Teachers, the principal and students of the British Columbia school where a teenager killed eight people in February filed 30 new lawsuits in California court (in addition to seven from April). The plaintiffs claim OpenAI knew about the shooter's alarming ChatGPT conversations but did not report them to police, and for the first time accuse the company of aiding and abetting, not just negligence; in their account, a recommendation to contact the authorities was rejected by Chris Lehane's global affairs team. OpenAI denies this: according to Jason Kwon, Lehane did not take part in the decision, and the shooter's activity did not reach the internal threshold of an "imminent and credible threat".
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