{"id":514616,"date":"2026-03-04T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514616\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:15:12","slug":"openais-sam-altman-to-meet-ai-minister-b-c-premier-over-safety-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514616\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman to meet AI minister, B.C. premier over safety changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s artificial intelligence<\/a> minister will meet virtually with OpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon to discuss changes the company has committed to making after last month\u2019s mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.<\/p>\n

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The timing was confirmed to Global News by a spokesperson for AI Minister Evan Solomon\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for British Columbia Premier David Eby\u2019s office, meanwhile, told Global News he will meet with Altman on Thursday afternoon for a similar discussion.<\/p>\n

Solomon sought the meeting with Altman<\/a> after OpenAI said last week it would enhance its police referral and repeat offender detection practices<\/a>, among other new safety measures, after it did not flag the Tumbler Ridge shooter\u2019s ChatGPT activity to police last summer.<\/p>\n

The company, which said it disabled Jesse VanRootselaar\u2019s account in June over \u201cviolent\u201d activity, said in a statement that it had also discovered a second ChatGPT account linked to her name after the shooting, despite a system that flags repeat policy offenders.<\/p>\n

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OpenAI ultimately alerted RCMP to the shooter\u2019s ChatGPT activity after the mass shooting, in which eight people died and dozens more were injured. The shooter took her own life.<\/p>\n

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OpenAI acknowledged in its statement last week that, \u201cunder our enhanced law enforcement referral protocol, we would refer the account banned in June 2025 to law enforcement if it were discovered today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Solomon said in a statement last week that OpenAI\u2019s commitments, while welcome, did not include \u201ca detailed plan for how these commitments will be implemented in practice\u201d and that more clarity was needed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI will be meeting directly with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman next week to seek further clarity and to ensure that the commitments made are translated into concrete action,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Altman has yet to comment publicly on the Tumbler Ridge shooting, the commitments his company has made in response, or his meeting with Solomon.<\/p>\n

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Eby said last week he was also setting up a meeting with Altman to discuss the Tumbler Ridge tragedy and push for safety changes at OpenAI.<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s commitments came after company representatives met with Solomon and three other federal ministers in Ottawa to discuss its safety practices.<\/p>\n

The ministers left the meeting \u201cdisappointed\u201d<\/a> that OpenAI did not present \u201cconcrete actions\u201d it would take in response, while experts and opposition MPs called on the government to step in with regulations.<\/p>\n

Solomon has not ruled out legislation to address police referral practices for AI companies that detect violent behaviour on their platforms. The minister has said he will meet with other companies in the coming weeks to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n

Eby has called for a national standard for police referrals, calling OpenAI\u2019s improvements and commitments for change \u201ccold comfort for the people in Tumbler Ridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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