{"id":387,"date":"2026-05-11T23:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:03:51","slug":"lawsuit-blames-chatgpt-maker-for-bot-helping-plan-fsu-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit blames ChatGPT maker for bot helping plan FSU mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By JEFF MARTIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The widow of a man killed in last year\u2019s\u00a0mass shooting at Florida State University\u00a0is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot for\u00a0giving advice\u00a0on how to carry out the rampage.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=385\">Supreme Court temporarily extends women\u2019s access to a widely used abortion pill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit comes after state authorities disclosed that\u00a0ChatGPT\u00a0gave information to the shooter about what time and location would maximize victims on campus, as well as the type of gun and ammunition to use. Authorities say he was also told that an attack can get more media attention if children are involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpenAI knew this would happen. It\u2019s happened before and it was only a matter of time before it happened again,\u201d Vandana Joshi, whose husband Tiru Chabba was one of\u00a0two people killed, said in a statement Monday. Six people were also wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed Sunday in federal court, says OpenAI should have built ChatGPT with guardrails to let someone know that police may need to investigate \u201cto prevent a specific plan for imminent harm to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI\u00a0has denied any wrongdoing in what it called a \u201cterrible crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, ChatGPT provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet, and it did not encourage or promote illegal or harmful activity,\u201d Drew Pusateri, a spokesman for the company, said in an email to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, in April, Florida\u2019s attorney general said there was a\u00a0rare criminal investigation\u00a0into ChatGPT over whether the AI tool offered advice to Phoenix Ikner that enabled the April 2025 shooting in Tallahassee. The 21-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and several counts of attempted murder. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=383\">Pictures: Rolling Loud hip-hop festival in Orlando<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Investigators said Ikner, a Florida State student, was on campus for an hour before he walked in and out of campus buildings and green spaces while firing a handgun. The shooting took place on a weekday just before lunchtime near the school\u2019s Student Union, which has food and shops. The lawsuit says Ikner asked ChatGPT about the busiest times there.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi\u2019s husband, a 45-year-old father of two from Greenville, South Carolina, was a regional vice president of the food service vendor Aramark Collegiate Hospitality. The other man who was killed, Robert Morales, 57, was a campus dining coordinator at Florida State.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI \u201cput their profits over our safety and it killed my husband. They need to be responsible before another family has to go through this,\u201d Joshi said in a statement released by her lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is currently valued at $852 billion.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several lawsuits have sought damages from AI and tech companies over the influence of chatbots and social media on loved ones\u2019 mental health.<\/p>\n<p>In March,\u00a0a jury in Los Angeles\u00a0found both\u00a0Meta and YouTube liable\u00a0for harms to children using their services. In\u00a0New Mexico,\u00a0a jury determined that Meta knowingly\u00a0harmed children\u2019s mental health\u00a0and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=381\">Officials identify Delta worker killed after vehicle crash at Orlando airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Associated Press reporter Ed White in Detroit contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widow of a man killed in a mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the artificial intelligence chatbot for contributing to the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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