OpenAI Refused to Report Jesse Van Rootselaar Before Massacre

OpenAI is facing intense criticism after it was revealed that the company did not report Jesse Van Rootselaar to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police months before he committed a mass shooting.In June 2025, the 18-year-old described graphic scenarios involving gun violence to ChatGPT, prompting approximately a dozen employees to urge leadership to alert law enforcement.The company opted only to ban the account after determining that the activity did not meet the internal threshold for an imminent and credible threat of serious physical harm.Jesse Van Rootselaar later killed eight people and injured 27 others at a home and a school in British Columbia, an outcome Elon Musk has described as troubling.