This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and the company behind ChatGPT is being taken to court by the world's richest man. What could possibly go wrong?

I think a lot of people might hear this and be like, oh, Elon Musk is fighting with Sam Altman and the billionaires, whatever. There is an actual potential case here.

Stick around.

School shootings are a sad fact of American life.

They have become disturbingly familiar.

Well, earlier this week, we got a new distinctly 2026 wrinkle.

Florida's Attorney General is launching a criminal investigation into open AI and its chatbot over a deadly shooting at Florida State University last year.

Florida's Attorney General James Uthmeyer says the shooting suspect allegedly sent hundreds

of messages to Chat GPT in the lead-up to the attack, where he killed two people and injured

six others.

He has pleaded not guilty.

The communication between the shooter and chat GPT revealed that the chat bot advised the

shooter on what type of gun to use, on which ammo went with which gun. So if that bot were a person,

they would be charged with a principle in first-degree murder.

Open AI insists chat GPT was not responsible for the shooting, that it was only pulling publicly

available information and did not promote a legal or harmful activity in its responses. In a statement to

CNN, it said it proactively shared the account believed linked to the suspect

with law enforcement after the shooting.

This appears to be one of the first criminal investigations into an AI company, but critics

predict it'll be far from the last.

There's a sense among some people that these chatbots present a real risk to vulnerable adults

and children, and that the billions of dollars being

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