O’Leary said that “with the benefit of our continued learnings,” the company “would refer the account banned in June 2025 to law enforcement if it were discovered today.”

The changes come after OpenAI’s head of policy, Chan Park, O’Leary and five others from the company met with members of Carney’s Cabinet on Tuesday in Ottawa — a meeting ministers later described as “disappointing.”

“We are reviewing OpenAI’s letter carefully and will have more to say in the coming days,” a spokesperson for Canada’s AI Minister Evan Solomon said in a statement on Thursday.

Canada’s Liberal government threatened to regulate AI chatbots if tech companies, like OpenAI, cannot demonstrate they have safeguards to protect Canadian users.

“Of course a failure occurred here. I mean, look what happened. This is a horrific tragedy,” Solomon said Wednesday.