Canadian officials to meet with OpenAI safety team after school shooting - Reuters
Canadian officials to meet with OpenAI safety team after school shooting Reuters
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"all options are on the table"
— Evan Solomon , Politician
"I have summoned the senior safety team from OpenAI to come here to Ottawa from the United States."
— Evan Solomon , Politician
"From the outside, it looks like OpenAI had the opportunity to prevent this tragedy, to prevent this horrific loss of life, to prevent there from being dead children in British Columbia."
— David Eby , Politician
"Canadians expect, first of all, that their children particularly are kept safe and these organizations act in a responsible manner."
— Evan Solomon , Politician
"all options are on the table"
— Evan Solomon , Politician
"I am deeply disturbed by reports that the company... did not reach out to Canadian law enforcement."
— Evan Solomon , Politician
"The pain the families were enduring was 'unimaginable' and that revelations OpenAI had 'related intelligence' before the shooting is 'profoundly disturbing for the victims’ families and all British Columbians'."
— David Eby , Politician
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<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNQWtJTVBPY3JZR1J5SERXd3JGTVpYMjY1aE90b1BsYU0zRlM3dWFzQlNOaUZBZVc3eVZHdy1oVXE5TzRxR3hrRkZKWmE5S0swSzE5b2R1a3FWTmdyZkxWaF9ZWUdnNm9nU2ZEanFkajJpdWFncGpMc0pFa213UVdIWkZpSTRYRC1CUERhTDE1NUhYcllCYzVnTjdEcw?oc=5" target="_blank">Canadian officials to meet with OpenAI safety team after school shooting</a> <font color="#6f6f6f">Reuters</font>
The Canadian government has called representatives of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to Ottawa after the company said it considered but didn't alert Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.
Representatives of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI have been summoned to Ottawa after the company said last week that it considered but didn't alert Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.
Canada has summoned top officials from OpenAI to Ottawa after it emerged the company had not shared internal concerns about a person who went on to commit a school shooting, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said on Monday.
Canada has summoned top officials from OpenAI to Ottawa for a meeting about the company's safety protocols, following the revelation that OpenAI did not alert police about an account it banned last year belonging to mass shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar.
Canada’s artificial intelligence minister says he has summoned representatives from the technology company OpenAI after the company declined to alert police after suspending the account of a user who became the perpetrator of one of the country’s the worst-ever school shootings.
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