Description: 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.
Editor Notes: Incident 886 may raise questions regarding its alignment with the "but-for" causation standard outlined in the AIID criteria. The "but-for" provision requires that an AI system play an important role in the chain of events leading to harm, such that the specific harm would not have occurred without the system's involvement. While the role of ChatGPT in this case appears to be secondary, its inclusion is notable as it represents one of the first prominent instances where generative AI is reportedly linked to planning a high-profile harmful event. Given the significance of this development in discussions about the potential misuse of AI, the incident has been indexed for further analysis.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by OpenAI and Matthew Livelsberger, which harmed Matthew Livelsberger , Seven injured victims in Las Vegas and Bystanders and guests of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
Alleged implicated AI system: ChatGPT
Incident Stats
Incident ID
886
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-01-01
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
apnews.com · 2025
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The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.
Nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsber…
newsweek.com · 2025
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Matthew Livelsberger, a Green Beret and the main suspect in the Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas, used generative AI including ChatGPT, to help plan the attack, according to Las Vegas police on Tuesday.
Why It Matters
Firework mortars and …
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
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