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Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before fatal Canada shooting

<p>OpenAI said the company had identified an account using abuse-detection efforts, but determined at the time it didn’t meet threshold for legal referral</p><p>The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online beha

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Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before fatal Canada shooting<p>OpenAI said the company had identified an account using abuse-detection efforts, but determined at the time it didn’t meet threshold for legal referral</p><p>The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online beha
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