Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting

诉讼要求 OpenAI 为枪击案后重建学校买单，此前凶手曾使用 ChatGPT

The families of victims killed in one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history have already sued OpenAI over its failure to warn law enforcement after discovering in advance that the shooter was using ChatGPT to plan the violence. Now, British Columbia is suing, explaining for the first time how costly and extreme the disaster response has been.

在加拿大历史上最严重的群体性枪击事件之一中，遇难者家属此前已对 OpenAI 提起诉讼，指控其在提前发现枪手利用 ChatGPT 策划暴力行为后，未能及时向执法部门发出警告。如今，不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC省）也提起了诉讼，首次披露了此次灾难应对过程中的高昂成本与极端困难。

OpenAI and Sam Altman owe the tiny remote mining community shattered by the tragedy much more than an apology, the Canadian province argued. They must make meaningful changes to end ChatGPT-assisted violence and then pay whatever it costs to help Tumbler Ridge to rebuild, recover, and heal.

该省认为，OpenAI 和萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）欠这个被悲剧摧毁的偏远小型矿业社区的，远不止是一句道歉。他们必须做出实质性改变以终结由 ChatGPT 辅助的暴力行为，并承担所有必要费用，帮助坦布勒岭（Tumbler Ridge）重建、恢复并走出阴影。

In a complaint filed Monday, British Columbia explained that Tumbler Ridge Secondary School had to be demolished after an 18-year-old transgender shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, died by suicide there in February after killing five kids and an education assistant. In total, eight lives were lost, as prior to the school shooting, Van Rootselaar shot their mother and half-brother.

在周一提交的诉状中，BC省解释称，18 岁的跨性别枪手杰西·范·鲁特塞拉（Jesse Van Rootselaar）在杀害五名学生和一名教育助理后，于今年 2 月在坦布勒岭中学自杀，导致该校不得不被拆除。此次事件共造成八人丧生，因为在校园枪击案发生前，范·鲁特塞拉还枪杀了其母亲和同母异父的兄弟。

Previously, the secondary school sat “in the heart of the town, both geographically and culturally,” the lawsuit said. But after the shooting, it became an unavoidable “symbol of the trauma.” About 160 students, teachers, and staff “were trapped in classrooms and closets” at the school for hours, and they were too traumatized to ever go back.

诉讼称，这所中学此前“在地理和文化上都处于城镇的中心”。但在枪击案发生后，它成了无法回避的“创伤象征”。约 160 名学生、教师和工作人员曾在校内“被困在教室和壁橱里”长达数小时，他们因心理创伤过重而无法再回到那里。

To provide “at least some small relief to those who have suffered the most intensely,” demolition began in August, and the community hopes to have a replacement school built at a new location by the end of this year, if all goes to plan. British Columbia argued that OpenAI and Altman should pay for the school, as well as cover a wide range of other emergency costs that never would have been incurred if not for “this tragedy and its foreseeable consequences.”

为了给“受创最深的人们提供哪怕一点点慰藉”，拆除工作于 8 月开始。如果一切按计划进行，社区希望能在今年年底前在新的地点建成一所替代学校。BC省主张，OpenAI 和奥特曼不仅应支付建校费用，还应承担其他一系列应急开支，因为如果不是因为“这场悲剧及其可预见的后果”，这些开支本不会产生。

They also asked the court to provide injunctive relief, including requiring OpenAI to update ChatGPT to automatically terminate violent conversations.

他们还请求法院提供禁令救济，包括要求 OpenAI 更新 ChatGPT，以自动终止涉及暴力的对话。

BC wants to see the ChatGPT logs

BC省要求查看 ChatGPT 日志

Most urgently, British Columbia and the local school district’s Board of Education have asked the court for an immediate order that would force OpenAI to share Van Rootselaar’s chat logs with the public for the first time. So far, OpenAI has only shared the logs with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

最紧迫的是，BC省和当地学区教育委员会已请求法院下达紧急命令，强制 OpenAI 首次向公众公开范·鲁特塞拉的聊天记录。到目前为止，OpenAI 仅与加拿大皇家骑警（RCMP）分享了这些日志。

Asked for comment on whether there’s any plan to release the chat logs to the public—as a Florida law enforcement agency did following a prior ChatGPT-linked shooting at Florida State University—RCMP declined to comment. Instead, they pointed Ars to a July statement, where the RCMP would only confirm that police are reviewing information from online accounts.

当被问及是否有计划向公众发布这些聊天记录（正如佛罗里达州执法机构在之前一起与 ChatGPT 相关的佛罗里达州立大学枪击案后所做的那样）时，皇家骑警拒绝置评。相反，他们向 Ars 指向了一份 7 月份的声明，声明中皇家骑警仅确认警方正在审查来自在线账户的信息。

In a seeming acknowledgment that the public wants answers, the statement also offered a reminder that “it is important to understand that the absence of publicly disclosed details does not mean investigators do not have that information.”

该声明似乎承认公众需要答案，并提醒称：“必须理解，缺乏公开披露的细节并不意味着调查人员没有掌握这些信息。”

OpenAI declined to comment directly on the lawsuit or requested remedies. The company has said that it was protecting Van Rootselaar’s privacy when the decision was made to override human review teams recommending that the violent chat logs be shared with police.

OpenAI 拒绝直接就诉讼或所要求的补救措施发表评论。该公司曾表示，在决定推翻人工审核团队关于将暴力聊天记录分享给警方的建议时，是为了保护范·鲁特塞拉的隐私。

Today, a spokesperson told Ars that “what happened in Tumbler Ridge was an unspeakable tragedy, and our thoughts remain with the victims, their families, and the entire community. OpenAI remains committed to working collaboratively with government and law enforcement officials, and continuing to advance our ongoing safety work.”

今天，一位发言人告诉 Ars：“发生在坦布勒岭的事情是一场无法言说的悲剧，我们的心与受害者、他们的家人以及整个社区同在。OpenAI 仍然致力于与政府和执法官员合作，并继续推进我们正在进行的安全工作。”

British Columbia maintains that OpenAI has not made ChatGPT any safer following several mass shootings that established “recurring” patterns of violent ChatGPT use. Further, the firm’s rationale for ignoring the threat seemed untrustworthy. British Columbia suspects that OpenAI actually wanted to avoid drawing a hard line that would require OpenAI to report more violent users to the police and expose the public to more of the real-world threats that chatbots could pose.

BC省坚持认为，在多起确立了“反复出现”的 ChatGPT 暴力使用模式的枪击事件后，OpenAI 并未让 ChatGPT 变得更安全。此外，该公司忽视威胁的理由似乎不可信。BC省怀疑，OpenAI 实际上是想避免划定一条强硬的界限，因为那将要求 OpenAI 向警方举报更多暴力用户，并让公众暴露在聊天机器人可能带来的更多现实威胁之下。

The province accused OpenAI of hiding the chat logs to protect its potentially $1 trillion IPO. To British Columbia, it seems like OpenAI is doing little to combat the most violent threats. Their complaint noted that OpenAI claimed it made an “attempt” to block violent chats in December 2025, but that change did not stop Van Rootselaar’s harmful use during that time or any time in the months after.

该省指责 OpenAI 隐瞒聊天记录是为了保护其潜在的 1 万亿美元 IPO。在 BC省看来，OpenAI 在打击最严重的暴力威胁方面几乎毫无作为。他们的诉状指出，OpenAI 声称在 2025 年 12 月曾“尝试”阻止暴力聊天，但这一改变并未阻止范·鲁特塞拉在当时及此后数月内的有害使用行为。

At a press conference covered by The Wall Street Journal, British Columbia’s attorney general, Niki Sharma, said that “we should be asking them why” they won’t release the chat logs. “In any other circumstance where a person aids, encourages or conspires to commit a criminal offense or is criminally negligent, they can be investigated, prosecuted, and judged,” Sharma said. “There is no AI exemption to those criminal law principles.”

在《华尔街日报》报道的一次新闻发布会上，BC省总检察长尼基·夏尔马（Niki Sharma）表示，“我们应该质问他们为什么”不公开聊天记录。“在任何其他情况下，如果一个人协助、鼓励或密谋犯罪，或者存在刑事疏忽，他们都可以被调查、起诉和审判，”夏尔马说。“这些刑法原则没有 AI 豁免权。”

“We all know the victims”

“我们都认识受害者”

The shooting on February 10, 2026, left everyone in Tumbler Ridge reeling. The population is only 2,700. A local official summed up the extent of the crisis by saying, “We all know the victims.”

2026 年 2 月 10 日的枪击事件让坦布勒岭的所有人都陷入了恐慌。该镇人口仅 2,700 人。一位当地官员用一句话概括了危机的严重程度：“我们都认识受害者。”

Tumbler Ridge Secondary School closed the day of the shooting and never reopened. For the kids recovering and seeking normalcy, that has been a problem, since there is no other school in the town. Instead, they’ve been attending a temporary school on a makeshift campus “assembled first from fourteen Ministry of Forestry trailers,” then eventually converted into “larger modular classrooms.”

坦布勒岭中学在枪击案当天关闭，此后再未重新开放。对于那些正在恢复并寻求回归正常生活的孩子们来说，这是一个问题，因为镇上没有其他学校。相反，他们一直在一个临时校园里上学，该校园“最初由 14 辆林业部的拖车组装而成”，后来最终改建为“更大的模块化教室”。

Throwing together a functioning school on the fly wasn’t cheap or easy, the school district said in the complaint. They had to “furnish it, recruit and train replacement educators for local staff who could not return, and reorganize instruction around the absence of murdered students and colleagues.” As for the old school, it cost money to demolish it, and none of these emergency resources are consid

学区在诉状中表示，匆忙拼凑一所功能齐全的学校既不便宜也不容易。他们必须“为其配备设施，为无法返岗的当地教职员工招聘并培训替代人员，并围绕遇难学生和同事的缺失重新组织教学。”至于旧学校，拆除它需要费用，而所有这些应急资源都未被考虑在内……