The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence

In June 2025, a safety team at OpenAI grew alarmed. The company’s automated review system had flagged extensive activity by a ChatGPT user describing scenarios that involved gun violence. A group of staffers debated whether law enforcement should be notified, but company leaders decided the case did not meet OpenAI’s threshold of “credible and imminent” […]