Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI after conducting an initial probe into the company’s ChatGPT program, which he said revealed that the chatbot gave detailed advice to a suspected shooter who allegedly used it in a deadly campus shooting at Florida State University last year.
“Florida law states that anyone who aids, abets, or counsels someone in the commission of a crime, and that crime is committed or attempted, is a principal in the first degree,” Uthmeier told reporters at a press conference in Tampa on April 21.
Two people were killed and seven people, including the suspect, were injured on April 17, 2025, during the shooting on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee. Phoenix Ikner, the 20-year-old suspect, is scheduled to stand trial later this year….
Florida Launches Criminal Investigation Into OpenAI Over Campus Shooting
