Sam Altman wrote an apology letter to Tumbler Ridge acknowledging OpenAI should have alerted law enforcement — a highly unusual admission of corporate fault, according to Georgia Wells.
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The meeting's second unresolved case was the most consequential. Jesse van Rootzeler, 18, had spent several days describing gun violence to ChatGPT in ways that made multiple OpenAI employees uncomfortable — enough to interpret it as a signal of potential real-world harm. The company did take one step: it banned her account. But it didn't call Canadian authorities. That ban turned out to be trivially easy to circumvent: according to a lawsuit, van Rootzeler simply re-registered with the same name and a different email address and continued using ChatGPT. Sam Altman later wrote to Tumbler Ridge saying he was 'deeply sorry' the company didn't alert law enforcement. Georgia Wells, who has covered tech companies for over a decade, said she could not recall another tech CEO making a comparable admission that his company's decision had contributed to harm. [1] — Ryan Knutson "OpenAI employees flagged Jesse van Rootzeler's conversations about gun violence in June. They discussed her case in the summer meeting. The…" 17:05 [2] — Ryan Knutson "Sam Altman wrote an apology letter to Tumbler Ridge that went far beyond condolences. He said he was 'deeply sorry' OpenAI did not alert la…" 22:25
Sam Altman wrote an apology letter to Tumbler Ridge that went far beyond condolences. He said he was 'deeply sorry' OpenAI did not alert law enforcement about van Rootzeler's banned account. Georgia Wells, who has covered tech for over a decade, said she could not recall another tech CEO making a comparable admission of fault.
Tumbler Ridge has only 2,400 residents. Five of the six school shooting victims were children aged 12 to 13. The secondary school building is scheduled for demolition. Students finished the year in temporary trailers. Jay Edelson says what happened there didn't just destroy this generation — it destroyed generations to come.
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