Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian town where OpenAI failed to alert police about a mass shooter
OpenAI employees reportedly debated whether to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooter to authorities but decided not to.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote a letter publicly apologizing to residents of the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge after the company failed to alert local authorities about a person who allegedly killed eight people in the town earlier this year. Recommended Video On Feb. 10, an 18-year-old suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar, allegedly killed her mother and stepbrother before killing five students and an educational assistant at a school in Tumbler Ridge, a rural town in the western Canadian province of British Columbia. Van Rootselaar, who was transitioning from male to female, later killed herself at the school, according to authorities.
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