OpenAI 因 Tumbler Ridge 枪击案面临 30 起新诉讼，被指协助教唆

据TechCrunch早前报道（https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/openai-faces-30-more-lawsuits-tied-to-tumbler-ridge-shooting/），OpenAI及其首席执行官Sam Altman 正面临30起新诉讼，指控他们向加拿大Tumbler Ridge学校枪击事件的嫌疑人提供“重大协助和鼓励”。这轮新诉讼由当时在校的学生、教师和校长于周三在加利福尼亚联邦法院提起：https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28594890-rushlow-v-openai/。

与今年四月由Tumbler Ridge遇难者家属提起的诉讼类似（/ai-artificial-intelligence/920479/tumbler-ridge-chagpt-openai-lawsuit），这些诉讼称，在自动审核系统标记出 alleged shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar 与ChatGPT关于枪支暴力的对话后，OpenAI未采取行动。尽管其安全团队建议OpenAI联系加拿大当局，但诉讼称，OpenAI首席全球事务官Chris Lehane参与了决定保持沉默的行为，出于对公司“声誉和财务状况”的担忧。

OpenAI首席战略官Jason Kwon在X上的一篇帖子中回应了这些诉讼：https://x.com/jasonkwon/status/2095128559736226013?s=20，他称诉讼中关于其安全团队的说法是“虚假指控”。他补充说，“说在这些艰难决策中心的人不重视安全，或者存在‘政治’或‘公关’因素，这是完全不真实的。”OpenAI还面临佛罗里达州提起的另一场诉讼：https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx2j0v8d2xo，该诉讼指控公司协助和教唆多起大规模枪击事件，包括去年在佛罗里达州立大学发生攻击事件的嫌疑人：https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368177/fsu-shooting-injures-multiple-people。

新的坦布勒岭诉讼还指控，OpenAI 允许嫌疑人继续使用 ChatGPT，通过“停用”他们的账户而不是实施系统范围的禁令。据称，这使嫌疑人能够通过使用另一个邮箱重新获得对该 AI 聊天机器人的访问权。诉讼称，“向射手持续提供该工具本身就构成了实质性的帮助”，并声称 OpenAI 的“实质性帮助是导致射手策划和实施袭击的关键因素。”

OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch ：https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/openai-faces-30-more-lawsuits-tied-to-tumbler-ridge-shooting/. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court：https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28594890-rushlow-v-openai/ on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal in the school at the time of the shooting.

Similar to the lawsuits filed by Tumbler Ridge victims’ families：/ai-artificial-intelligence/920479/tumbler-ridge-chagpt-openai-lawsuit in April, these lawsuits claim OpenAI failed to take action after its automated review system flagged conversations that the alleged shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, had with ChatGPT about gun violence. While its safety team recommended that OpenAI contact Canadian authorities, the lawsuits allege OpenAI chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, was involved in a decision to stay silent out of concern for the company’s “reputational and financial standing.”

Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, responded to the lawsuits：https://x.com/jasonkwon/status/2095128559736226013?s=20 in a post on X, saying they contain “false claims” about its safety teams. He adds that it’s “completely untrue to say that the people at the center of these challenging decisions do not prioritize safety, or that there are ‘political’ or ‘public relations’ factors at play.” OpenAI is also facing a lawsuit from the state of Florida：https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx2j0v8d2xo, which accuses the company of aiding and abetting mass shooters, including the suspect who carried out an attack at Florida State University last year.：https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368177/fsu-shooting-injures-multiple-people

The new Tumbler Ridge lawsuits also allege that OpenAI allowed the suspect to continue using ChatGPT by “deactivating” their account rather than issuing a system-wide ban. This allegedly allowed the suspect to regain access to the AI chatbot by signing up with another email. “Providing the Shooter with continued access to this tool constituted substantial assistance in itself,” the lawsuit alleges, claiming OpenAI’s “substantial assistance was a key factor in causing the Shooter to plan and carry out the attack.”