British Columbia lawsuit seeks OpenAI funding for a replacement Tumbler Ridge school

A complaint seeking a new school and recovery costs

According to the report, British Columbia and the local Board of Education filed a complaint against OpenAI and Sam Altman after the February shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. The complaint reportedly seeks recovery of emergency and rebuilding costs, including a new school, as well as injunctions that would require changes to ChatGPT’s handling of violent conversations.

It also asks for immediate public release of the shooter’s ChatGPT logs. OpenAI declined to comment directly on the lawsuit or its requested remedies, the article says.

Before this reported action, the Tumbler Ridge community and victims’ families had sought accountability from OpenAI, while the school district was operating a temporary school after Tumbler Ridge Secondary School closed and was demolished, according to the article.

British Columbia and the local school district have reportedly added a lawsuit seeking damages, a replacement school, safety-related court orders, and public disclosure of the shooter’s ChatGPT logs.

System changes and disclosure also sought

The reported lawsuit would broaden the dispute from alleged product-safety failures to the lasting public costs of recovery for a small community. Its requested remedies also seek court-directed changes to an AI system and disclosure of records that have not been made public.