Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before fatal Canada shooting

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OpenAI said the company had identified an account using abuse detection efforts, but determined at the time it didn’t meet threshold for legal referral

The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.

In the letter posted Friday, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/sam-altman">Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community.

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