Overview
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened a probe into OpenAI and its ChatGPT tool tied to the April 2025 Florida State University shooting that left two people dead.
- Uthmeier said subpoenas are forthcoming as his office seeks records to assess possible violations and accountability.
- Messages obtained by NBC News, cited by prosecutors, show the suspect, Phoenix Ikner, asked an AI bot about suicide, mass shootings, firearms, and when the FSU student union is busiest.
- OpenAI said it will cooperate with the investigation and recently released an abuse‑prevention framework developed with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Attorney General Alliance’s AI Taskforce.
- The attorney general also flagged alleged harms to minors and national security risks, and the action follows Florida’s HB 245 updating state law to cover AI‑generated child sexual abuse material.