{"id":494801,"date":"2026-02-23T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:37:09","slug":"openai-safety-reps-summoned-to-ottawa-after-b-c-shooting-incident-minister-says-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494801\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI safety reps summoned to Ottawa after B.C. shooting incident, minister says | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771879029_150_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFeb 23, 2026 | 11:20 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says he has called representatives of OpenAI to Ottawa to discuss safety concerns after a report emerged about the Tumbler Ridge shooter\u2019s engagement with the AI platform ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Jesse Van Rootselaar\u2019s account was banned last June after it was flagged for troubling posts, including some that included scenarios of gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>While the report says employees considered alerting authorities, OpenAI says the posts did not meet the threshold required to inform police because they didn\u2019t include credible or imminent plans.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon says he is deeply disturbed by the reports and he contacted the company over the weekend to get more information and to arrange a meeting in Ottawa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Feb 23, 2026 | 11:20 AM OTTAWA \u2014 Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-494801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}