{"id":241403,"date":"2026-04-22T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:42:07","slug":"florida-investigating-chatgpt-role-in-mass-shooting-at-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241403\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida investigating ChatGPT role in mass shooting at university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Florida on Tuesday announced a criminal probe into whether artificial intelligence played a role in a deadly mass shooting at a university in the US state.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to launch an investigation came after prosecutors reviewed exchanges between OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT and the suspected gunman, who <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3306991\/shooting-florida-university-sends-students-running-several-people-wounded?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">opened fire at Florida State University last year<\/a>, according to state Attorney General James Uthmeier.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder,\u201d Uthmeier said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Florida law allows anyone who assists or counsels someone in the commission of a crime to be treated as an \u201caider and abettor\u201d bearing the same responsibility as the perpetrator, according to Uthmeier.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In exchanges with ChatGPT, the accused shooter sought advice on what type of gun and ammunition to use, as well as where and when on campus a lot of people would likely be found, the state attorney general said during a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cLast year\u2019s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,\u201d an OpenAI spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida on Tuesday announced a criminal probe into whether artificial intelligence played a role in a deadly mass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2872,89995,28,30,29,1422,4260,1289,21152,84314,30105,4571,40845],"class_list":{"0":"post-241403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-chatgpt","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-florida-state-university","14":"tag-james-uthmeier","15":"tag-leon-county","16":"tag-mass-shooting","17":"tag-openai","18":"tag-phoenix-ikner","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-walt-mcneil"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241403","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=241403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}