The whole town is “devastated,” Edelson told Ars.
He recently visited Gebala in the hospital; the families suing have criticized Altman for failing to do the same.
“She’s a fighter,” Edelson said. “Her mom is a fighter, but it is really hard.”
Edelson’s team told Ars that the school has shut down and will soon be razed. In the meantime, students have been attending classes in makeshift trailers. Some students aren’t ready to go back to school. Mwansa’s little sister is too scared to return to the town because she feels unsafe.
“What this town went through, it’s just unimaginable,” Edelson said.
Gebala’s mother, who has been separated from her other daughter while staying by Maya’s side, said in the lawsuit that her primary goal was to teach her daughters that they can be strong and accomplish anything if they try hard enough.
“I would give anything to go back,” Edmonds said in her complaint. “I would give anything to have us whole again.”
OpenAI withholding chat logs seems “cruel”
By neglecting the safety team’s recommendations, OpenAI may have violated several state laws, families alleged.
Perhaps most critically, OpenAI is accused of negligence for failing to warn law enforcement, which California law requires “when a person has actual knowledge of a specific individual’s serious and foreseeable threat to cause physical harm to another.” In addition to holding Altman accountable, the lawsuits seek to identify OpenAI leadership involved in overriding the safety team’s decision.
Additionally, the company’s re-registration policy may have violated a California law that bans re-supplying a “dangerous” instrument to a “person known to be likely to use it in a manner involving unreasonable risk of physical harm to others,” the lawsuits alleged. OpenAI denies that support emails tell users how to re-register with a new email address after accounts are deactivated.
