Lawsuits Claim OpenAI Chose Good PR Over Warning Cops About a Mass Shooter
Remember when tech companies promised their AI would save humanity? Turns out PR still comes first.
A fresh batch of lawsuits is pointing fingers at OpenAI, and the accusations are grim. According to the filings, staff internally flagged an alleged Canadian mass shooter and recommended contacting the police. Pretty standard safety drill, right?
Except the suits allege that the global affairs team killed the idea to protect the company's image. Leading that team was veteran political operative Chris Lehane, whose playbook apparently favored keeping things quiet over handing over warnings to law enforcement.
OpenAI flatly denies it all, but the narrative is brutal. It turns out that when building superintelligence, the hardest bug to fix is still standard corporate image management.
Turns out artificial general intelligence is no match for good old-fashioned crisis communications.
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