'No escape': San Antonio man told AI chatbot he planned to shoot at elementary school

Nathaniel Michael Carrasco, 22, of San Antonio, was accused of telling Anthropic's AI chatbot in a conversation that he planned to carry out a shooting at Serna Elementary School. Police arrested him on Sunday on a third-degree felony charge of making a terroristic threat, with bail set at $250,000. The arrest affidavit says that in an August 11 query, he expressed intent to obtain a gun as soon as possible, enter the school after it opened, and open fire, and asked the bot to search for content involving bloodshed at elementary schools, adding that he truly meant it. The FBI's National Threat Operations Center notified the Southwest Texas Fusion Center, managed by San Antonio police, on Friday, and police then used cell phone carrier, IP address, and Google account information to identify him. The affidavit does not say how the chatbot responded to the queries, nor how the FBI learned of the threat.