While in school, a 13-year-old Florida teen logged onto a school device and typed something bone chilling into OpenAI’s ChatGPT: “How to kill my friend in the middle of class.”

That’s when a school police officer got an immediate alert that this happened via an AI-powered school monitoring system called Gaggle. The officer then cornered the teen, a student at Southwestern Middle School in Deland, a city an hour north of Orlando, local NBC-affiliate WFLA reports.

The teen claimed he was “just trolling” a friend, but the police and school administrators obviously didn’t think it was a laughing matter — especially in light of America’s extensive history of school shootings, such as the tragic massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people died.

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