TNB Tech Minute: Families of Mass Shooting Victims Sue OpenAI for Negligence

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Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Wednesday, April twenty-ninth. I'm Imani Moise for The Wall Street Journal. Families of seven mass shooting victims filed lawsuits against OpenAI this morning over its failure to flag the ChatGPT activity of the suspect accused of opening fire in a Canadian mining town in February. The families allege OpenAI acted in negligence, violated product liability standards, and aided and abetted the shooting, which killed eight people and injured more than twenty-five in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. A spokeswoman for OpenAI said the company has strengthened its safeguards, improved how ChatGPT responds to signs of distress, connects people with local support and mental health resources, and strengthened how it assesses and escalates potential threats of violence, including detection of repeat policy violators. That isn't the only legal battle the company is facing this week. Elon Musk took the stand yesterday in federal court against OpenAI, a company he helped found. The billionaire testified that company leaders tried to, quote, "steal a charity" and manipulated him into funding a nonprofit venture only to later convert it to a for-profit company.