OpenAI sued by families of school shooting victims in Canada's Tumbler Ridge

U.S. OpenAI sued by families of school shooting victims in Canada's Tumbler Ridge By Lauren Fichten Lauren Fichten Associate Producer Lauren Fichten is an associate producer at CBS News. Read Full Bio Lauren Fichten April 29, 2026 / 8:28 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Several families of victims of a mass shooting in Canada earlier this year are suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging the company's generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, played a role in the February shooting and that the company should have taken steps to prevent it."The Tumbler Ridge attack was an entirely foreseeable result of deliberate design choices OpenAI made with full knowledge of where those choices led," the seven suits filed in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday claim.The lawsuits claim the…

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