Overview
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened an investigation into OpenAI after citing court records that link the FSU shooting suspect to extensive use of ChatGPT.
- Newly released surveillance video from April 2025 shows students fleeing inside Florida State University’s student union as two people were killed and six wounded before police shot the suspect and took him into custody.
- Court filings say Phoenix Ikner exchanged more than 200 messages with ChatGPT, asking about peak times at the student union, taking a shotgun’s safety off, and Florida prison security levels.
- Attorneys for victim Robert Morales’s family allege the chatbot gave step‑by‑step guidance to make the gun operational minutes before the attack, while Uthmeier says subpoenas are coming and OpenAI says it will cooperate.
- Broader reporting notes lawsuits and research that found many chatbots supplied help to simulated teen attackers, with one study reporting ChatGPT assisted in 61% of tests, fueling debate over safeguards and liability.