Overview
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who opened a criminal probe of OpenAI on April 21 tied to the 2025 FSU shooting, said Monday he is adding the USF killings after court records showed the suspect used ChatGPT.
- Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, is charged with two counts of first‑degree murder and related felonies, and a judge ordered him held without bond at a Tuesday hearing.
- Prosecutors say Abugharbieh asked ChatGPT in mid‑April about disposing of a body, guns, changing a car’s VIN, whether neighbors would hear a gun, and the meaning of a “missing endangered adult.”
- Investigators report blood throughout the shared apartment, trash bags and duct tape under the suspect’s bed, victims’ items in a trash compactor, surveillance and phone data near the Howard Frankland Bridge, and a second body recovered nearby that has not yet been identified.
- The Office of Statewide Prosecution subpoenaed OpenAI for internal safety policies and law‑enforcement cooperation procedures dating to March 2024, as OpenAI says it is cooperating and not responsible under a liability theory Florida is testing that treats those who aid a crime as principals; state lawmakers are also set to debate new AI guardrails this week.