Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon

OpenAI’s commitments following Tumbler Ridge are the beginning of a conversation, not the end of one. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

March 18, 2026

OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Simon Fraser University

What Canada’s response to AI protocols in the wake of the Tumbler Ridge tragedy gets wrong, and what durable governance actually requires.

Flowers are placed in a barricade pylon on a road leading to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., where a mass shooting took place on Feb. 10. The shooter’s ChatGPT account was flagged by an automated program months earlier for interactions involving scenarios of gun violence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

February 24, 2026

Danger was flagged, but not reported: What the Tumbler Ridge tragedy reveals about Canada’s AI governance vacuum

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Simon Fraser University

In cases like the Tumbler Ridge shooter’s flagged ChatGPT account, Canada lacks a legal framework for assigning responsibility when an AI company possesses information that could prevent violence.

The design and marketing of mental health chatbots may result in users’ misconceptions about their therapeutic value. (Shutterstock)

April 28, 2024

Your AI therapist is not your therapist: The dangers of relying on AI mental health chatbots

Zoha Khawaja, Simon Fraser University and Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Simon Fraser University

AI-powered mental health chatbots have the advantage of being easily accessible. However, users may overestimate their therapeutic benefits and underestimate their limitations.

Parmi toutes les thérapies numériques proposées sur le marché, seulement une infime partie reçoit une homologation de la part d'une autorité de régulation, permettant ainsi en plus de sa commercialisation, son remboursement. (Shutterstock)

September 27, 2022

Des médicaments numériques qui bousculent les codes du monde pharmaceutique

Pierre-Marie David, Université de Montréal; Cécile Petitgand, Université de Montréal; Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Simon Fraser University, and Léo Cadillac, Université de Montréal

Les thérapies numériques se distinguent en ceci qu’ils reçoivent une homologation de la part d’une autorité de régulation, permettant ainsi en plus de sa commercialisation, son remboursement.

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