OpenAI Staff Alarmed Months Before Jesse Van Rootselaar Killed 8

OpenAI is under scrutiny after staff members raised internal alarms about Jesse Van Rootselaar months before she carried out a mass shooting in Canada.Employees identified graphic descriptions of gun violence on ChatGPT and urged executives to alert the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in June 2025.The technology company decided not to notify authorities after determining the risk was not imminent and instead opted to only ban the account.Elon Musk called the decision troubling as police continue to investigate the attack that killed eight people at a high school in Tumbler Ridge.