Members of OpenAI’s specialized safety team recognized the real-world risk of violence and recommended that OpenAI notify the RCMP. OpenAI’s leadership overruled that recommendation and warned no one, the complaint asserts.
They also allege that OpenAI’s chats were an “interactive engagement with someone who had a propensity for violence. In June 2025, OpenAI’s system flagged their account and routed it to the specialized pipeline for users planning to harm others, and OpenAI’s trained reviewers concluded it presented a credible threat of serious physical harm to real people and recommended contacting the RCMP. OpenAI also had actual knowledge, from prior incidents, including the Las Vegas Cybertruck bombing, the Florida State University shooting, and the Finland school stabbing, that ChatGPT was being used to plan real-world attacks. Possessing that knowledge, OpenAI furnished substantial assistance to the shooter through ChatGPT’s deliberate configuration.”