British Columbia is taking OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman to court over the company’s alleged role in a mass shooting that shattered a small Canadian community.

Niki Sharma, the Deputy Premier and Attorney General of British Columbia, filed a lawsuit Monday in California to hold OpenAI “accountable for designing a dangerous product, distributing it to every home with internet access, ignoring the warnings of their own safety team, refusing to notify authorities when they knew the shooter was planning gun violence.”

“OpenAI has confirmed that the conversation between ChatGPT and the shooter was so alarming that it triggered an internal review by…