OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities.”For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The San Francisco tech company said it considered whether to refer the account the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but determined at the time that the account activity did not meet a threshold for referral to law enforcement. OpenAI banned the account in June 2025 for violating its usage policy.The 18-year-old killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia last week and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.OpenAI said the threshold for referring a user to law enforcement is whether the case involves an imminent and credible risk of serious physical