British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge school shooting

In the quiet aftermath of a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia has turned its grief into legal action, naming OpenAI as a defendant in what may be one of the first government lawsuits to hold an AI company accountable for real-world violence. The province is asking a question that technology has long deferred: when a powerful generative system is woven into the fabric of a tragedy, does the company that built it bear any share of the moral and legal weight? The answer, still unwritten, could reshape the relationship between artificial intelligence and human accountability for y