ChatGPT Reportedly Referenced During Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion Planning
December 27, 2024
Matthew Livelsberger, the suspect in the 2025 Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion, reportedly used ChatGPT to search for publicly available information on explosives, ammunition, and fireworks regulations. ChatGPT is alleged to have played a role in the planning of the explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The information provided by ChatGPT, though, was reportedly general and available through other public sources.
- Alleged deployer
- openai, matthew-livelsberger
- Alleged developer
- openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- seven-injured-victims-in-las-vegas, matthew-livelsberger, bystanders-and-guests-of-the-trump-international-hotel-in-las-vegas
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/886
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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