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Overview
- Florida state prosecutor James Uthmeier announced Tuesday a criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT to determine if the bot gave the campus shooter advice.
- Prosecutors say a student exchanged messages with ChatGPT before the April 2025 Florida State University attack that left two dead and six wounded, and they have not disclosed the chat content.
- Uthmeier said that if ChatGPT were a person it would face murder charges, signaling an aggressive legal stance toward potential AI culpability.
- OpenAI called the shooting a tragedy, said ChatGPT only provided factual information available on the public internet, and said it identified the linked account and alerted police.
- No charges have been filed as investigators assess whether Florida’s accomplice law, which covers aiding or advising a crime, can apply to software in a case seen as a rare test of AI accountability.