Florida Launches Criminal Investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT's Role in Mass Shooting
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced a criminal investigation into OpenAI, focusing on whether its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, provided significant advice to a mass shooter involved in a 2025 campus attack at Florida State University (FSU).The investigation follows allegations that the shooter, Phoenix Ikner, was in frequent communication with ChatGPT prior to the incident.Authorities have issued subpoenas to OpenAI as part of the inquiry.Ikner, 20 at the time of the shooting, is accused of killing two people and injuring six others on the Tallahassee campus.He is currently awaiting trial on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder and... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 21 Apr 2026 21:01 LONDON
