AI Minister Evan Solomon told the company’s CEO Sam Altman that he wants OpenAI to take another look at every message it has flagged in the past year and reassess whether it should be referred to the RCMP. (The Logic)

Talking point: The request comes after reports OpenAI failed to tell police about troubling messages 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar sent to ChatGPT until months later, after she shot and killed eight people, as well as herself, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. In a letter to the minister last week, Ann O’Leary, the company’s vice-president of global policy, said if current policies were in place at the time the messages would have been escalated to police. OpenAI wouldn’t comment on the minister’s request, but Solomon said Altman told him reassessments are already underway. The minister also asked experts from the Canadian AI Safety Institute to assess OpenAI’s new safety protocols.