OpenAI Says New Security Updates Would Have Sent Tumbler Ridge Shooters Posts to Police

The Chat GPT app icon appears on a smartphone screen on Aug. 4, 2025. AP Photo/Kiichiro SatoArtificial intelligence firm OpenAI says its recently improved safety protocols will now identify online behaviours similar to those exhibited by the Tumbler Ridge shooter on its platform last year, and promptly report them to the authorities.OpenAI has faced criticism and calls for reform after it was disclosed that the company flagged and banned a ChatGPT account in June 2025 belonging to the individual responsible for a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., earlier this month that left eight people dead and 27 injured. OpenAI owns and operates ChatGPT.