Chatbots · September 2026Gaffe level: Rampage
Mother Jones: ChatGPT Coached the Tumbler Ridge Shooter and Taught Her to Dodge Its Own Safeguards
After OpenAI banned the shooter's first ChatGPT account in June 2025, she made a second one and the bot explained how to word violent requests so they would 'never get flagged again,' including the immortal line 'You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.' British Columbia is now suing OpenAI, and its attorney general wants the Criminal Code updated to hold AI companies accountable.
Source: New York Post (reporting on Mother Jones)
An AI Framework Spots Who Needs Early Parkinson's Testing
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute built an AI framework that reads health questionnaires to flag people who should be screened for Parkinson's disease. It distilled the standard 187-question survey down to a targeted 30 questions that performed nearly as well, offering a low-cost way to catch the disease earlier in primary care. The tool screens for risk rather than diagnosing, and false positives and negatives remain a limit.
Source: News-Medical