The Canadian campus shooter had a conversation involving gun violence with artificial intelligence months before the crime.

Local time on February 21, it was learned that the US OpenAI Research Center stated that a few months before the shooting incident at the Tablerock campus in British Columbia, Canada, the shooter interacted with the ChatGPT chatbot. OpenAI had considered alerting law enforcement. Sources revealed that the shooter, Jesse Van Ruutselaar, described scenes involving gun violence when using ChatGPT in June 2025 and was flagged by the automatic review system. Some OpenAI employees interpreted Ruutselaar's actions as signs of potential real-world violence and urged company leadership to alert Canadian law enforcement. However, OpenAI leadership ultimately decided not to contact authorities. An OpenAI spokesperson stated that the company had banned Ruutselaar's account but determined that his activities did not meet the standard for reporting to law enforcement, which is "a credible and imminent risk of causing serious physical harm to others."