{"id":10575,"date":"2026-04-21T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/10575\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:58:30","slug":"openai-gets-florida-criminal-probe-over-chatgpt-role-in-shooting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/10575\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Gets Florida Criminal Probe Over ChatGPT Role in Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally liable for use in a mass shooting. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came 11 days after statewide prosecutors said they were <a data-terminal-id=\"TD8U62KGIFRO\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/alleged-chatgpt-use-in-mass-shooting-spurs-florida-ag-probe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">probing<\/a> a shooter\u2019s use of ChatGPT to plan and carry out an attack last spring at Florida State University that killed two people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that bot were a person they\u2019d be charged with a principal in first degree murder,\u201d Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said during a Tuesday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter sought advice from ChatGPT on what weapon to use, what ammo to fire, and where he could find the most people to kill on campus, Uthmeier said. <\/p>\n<p>The state is demanding police and chatbot training materials that touch on threats to users, threats to others, and company policies over cooperation with law enforcement, as well as information from the shooter. Subpoenas will be sent today, but the Florida Attorney General\u2019s office said the documents weren\u2019t available yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology is supposed to help mankind, it\u2019s supposed to support mankind. Not end it,\u201d Uthmeier said, adding that the state will look to potentially charge individuals at OpenAI depending on what they find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[580,1644,1645,1642,157,8767],"class_list":{"0":"post-10575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-chatgpt","9":"tag-firearm-crime","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-large-language-models","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-subpoenas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}