OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “deeply sorry” for failing to alert law enforcement to Canada school shooter’s ChatGPT account

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “deeply sorry” for failing to alert law enforcement to Canada school shooter’s ChatGPT account

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to members of a Canadian community where a mass shooting took place earlier this year for not flagging the ChatGPT account of the shooter to law enforcement. “The pain your community has endured is unimaginable,” Altman wrote in a letter shared Friday on social media by the British Columbia…

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Florida opens criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in FSU shooting

Florida opens criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in FSU shooting

Florida’s attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI after reviewing conversation logs between its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, and a Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding several others after opening fire on campus last April. “My prosecutors have looked at this and they’ve…

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AI is fueling a surge in crypto fraud schemes, IRS investigators say. For one victim, “There’s nothing left.”

AI is fueling a surge in crypto fraud schemes, IRS investigators say. For one victim, “There’s nothing left.”

Kyle Holder’s entire life savings were stolen from her by sophisticated scammers who used artificial intelligence to perfectly manipulate her. Her $300,000 in retirement and savings accounts, saved over decades, disappeared into the cryptocurrency universe in under three months. Holder was one of thousands of Americans swindled out of a total estimated at $20 billion…

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Transportation Secretary Duffy on concerns of AI replacing air traffic controllers: “That’s not gonna happen”

Transportation Secretary Duffy on concerns of AI replacing air traffic controllers: “That’s not gonna happen”

As the Department of Transportation begins the process of overhauling the country’s air traffic control system β€” a $12 billion undertaking β€” there are already plans to integrate artificial intelligence into it in the future. Addressing fears that AI is meant to completely replace air traffic controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CBS News, “that’s…

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