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ChatGPT Was Alleged to Have Aided Planning of Florida State University Mass Shooting
- Occurred
- Apr 17, 2025
- Published
- May 11, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On April 17, 2025, a shooting at Florida State University killed Tiru Chabba and Robert Morales and injured others. Phoenix Ikner, the accused shooter, has pleaded not guilty. In 2026, victims' families and attorneys reportedly alleged that Ikner used ChatGPT before the attack to discuss mass shootings, firearms, campus activity, and media attention, and that OpenAI failed to flag or escalate the exchanges. OpenAI denied responsibility.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- Phoenix Ikner
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Tiru Chabba's family
- Tiru Chabba
- Robert Morales's family
- Robert Morales
- Florida State University shooting victims
- Florida State University campus community
- Students
- University students
- Educational communities
Tags
- response
- syndicated
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves alleged misuse of ChatGPT to plan a mass shooting, raising serious safety and liability concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8