Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is investigating ChatGPT after family members of those slain in last year’s shooting at Florida State University said the suspect was coached through his attack by the AI chatbot.
Mr. Uthmeier, a Republican, said his office launched a probe into OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company, after the relatives of FSU victims accused the chatbot of instructing suspect Phoenix Ikner when the campus’ student union was busiest and how to disengage a shotgun’s safety.
“We’ve also learned that chat GPT may likely have been used to assist the murderer in the recent mass school shooting at Florida State University that tragically took two lives,” Mr. Uthmeier said in a written statement. “AI should exist to supplement, support and advance mankind, not lead to an existential crisis or our ultimate demise.”…