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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a public apology to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, for failing to alert law enforcement after the company flagged and banned the ChatGPT account of Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025 — eight months before the 18-year-old killed eight people in a school shooting. The case has exposed a regulatory vacuum around AI companies' obligations to report potential threats and triggered both a lawsuit from a victim's family and a separate criminal investigation in Florida over a similar incident.