LAS VEGAS (AP) 鈥� 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.
The updates Tuesday come nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger just before the truck blew up.
A review of Livelsberger鈥檚 searches through ChatGPT indicate he was looking for information on explosive targets, the speed at which certain rounds of ammunition would travel and whether fireworks were legal in Arizona.
Livelsberger, an Army Green Beret who deployed twice to Afghanistan and lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, left notes saying the explosion was a stunt meant to be a 鈥� 鈥� for the nation's troubles, officials said last week.
He left cellphone notes saying he needed to 鈥渃leanse鈥� his mind 鈥渙f the brothers I鈥檝e lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took."
The explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but virtually no damage to the Trump International Hotel. Authorities said that Livelsberger acted alone.
Livelsberger鈥檚 letters touched on political grievances, societal problems and domestic and international issues, including the war in Ukraine. He wrote that the U.S. was 鈥渢erminally ill and headed toward collapse.鈥�
Investigators had been trying to determine if Livelsberger wanted to make a political point, given the Tesla and the hotel bearing the president-elect鈥檚 name.
Livelsberger harbored no ill will toward President-elect Donald Trump, law enforcement officials said. In one of the notes he left, he said the country needed to 鈥渞ally around鈥� him and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The Associated Press
