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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jim Morris

Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before Tumbler Ridge killings

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The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.

In the letter posted Friday, Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community.

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