{"id":225511,"date":"2026-04-09T22:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:48:07","slug":"florida-launches-investigation-into-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225511\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida launches investigation into OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/florida-ag-probe-openai-chatgpt-2026-04-09\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as reported earlier by Reuters<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGJamesUthmeier\/status\/2042258048115265541?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">a statement on Thursday<\/a>, Uthmeier says there are concerns that OpenAI\u2019s data and technology are \u201cfalling into the hands of America\u2019s enemies, such as the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Uthmeier also says that OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT has been \u201clinked to criminal behavior\u201d related to child sexual abuse material and the \u201cencouragement\u201d of self-harm. He adds that ChatGPT may have been used to \u201cassist\u201d the person suspected of carrying out a shooting at Florida State University in April 2025. This week, the family of a man killed during the FSU shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/08\/florida-state-university-shooting-robert-morales-family-sue-chatgpt-openai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit against OpenAI<\/a>, accusing the suspect of being in \u201cconstant communication with ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cAI should exist to supplement, support, and advance mankind, not lead to an existential crisis or our ultimate demise,\u201d Uthmeier says. \u201cAs Big Tech rolls out these technologies, they should not \u2014 they cannot \u2014 put our safety and security at risk.\u201d Uthmeier adds that subpoenas related to the investigation are \u201cforthcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2872,28,30,29,115,84314,14126,99,4443],"class_list":{"0":"post-225511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-openai","14":"tag-policy","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}