Las Vegas police say man used ChatGPT to plan Cybertruck explosion outside Trump hotel

In brief: The man who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas at the start of the month used ChatGPT to help him plan the attack, Las Vegas police said. OpenAI's tool was instrumental in ensuring the explosion succeeded, offering information on where to source materials and the type of firearm rounds that could ignite them.

Active-duty US Army Green Beret Alan Livelsberger, 37, exploded the Cybertruck outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on January 1.

In a news conference yesterday, the Las Vegas police department and partners in the ATF and FBI revealed that Livelsberger had asked ChatGPT a series of questions related to his crime over the course of an hour in the days leading up to the blast.

Some of the questions Livelsberger asked ChatGPT included where he could source explosives for the blast and what laws ...