27
Feb
Ottawa (Rajeev Sharma): In a direct response to a tragic mass shooting that claimed eight lives in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI has committed to a series of urgent safety reforms to its AI platforms. The decision follows intense pressure from the Canadian federal government after it was revealed that the 18-year-old shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, had been banned from ChatGPT months before the attack for policy violations related to violent content—yet the company did not alert law enforcement at the time. In a letter addressed to Canada’s Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, Evan Solomon, OpenAI’s Vice President…