The families of victims of a school shooting in a British Columbia town sued artificial intelligence company OpenAI in a San Francisco court this week, alleging that the company behind ChatGPT failed to alert police of the shooter’s alarming interactions with the chatbot.
One of the lawsuits was filed on behalf of Shannda Aviugana-Durand, an education assistant who was shot and killed in a library at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. The suit alleges negligence, aiding and abetting a mass shooting, wrongful death and liability, among other claims. According to the lawsuit, Aviugana-Durand’s daughter was present at the time of the attack.
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The educational assistant was one of six people who were killed by an 18-year-old in February. The teen — who later shot herself — also killed her mother and her 11-year-old half-brother at home beforehand. Twenty-five people were also injured in the attack, Canada’s deadliest mass shooting in years.
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