OpenAI is under scrutiny after two mass shooters used ChatGPT to plan attacks

AI companies are under growing scrutiny over the potential harms chatbots can pose amid investigations into how mass shooters allegedly sought advice from the tools.

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This week, the State of Florida launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over accusations that ChatGPT advised the alleged gunmen in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year. That investigation comes amid growing scrutiny of the potential harms AI chatbots can pose and questions over how to hold the companies that make them accountable. NPR’s Shannon Bond joins us now. Hey.

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