The soldier who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas used artificial intelligence including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.
His laptop, cellphone and watch are still under review nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsperger shot himself before the truck exploded.
A review of Livelsberger’s searches via ChatGPT indicates he was searching for information about explosive targets, the speed at which certain rounds of ammunition travel and whether fireworks are legal in Arizona.
Livelsberger, an Army Green Beret who deployed twice to Afghanistan and lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., left notes saying the explosion was an operation intended to be a “wake-up call” to the country’s problems, officials said last week.
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He left notes on his mobile phone saying he needed to “clear” his mind “of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the life I’ve taken.”
The explosion caused minor injuries to seven people, but did almost no damage to the Trump International Hotel. Authorities said Livelsberger acted alone.
Livelsberger’s letters touched on political grievances, societal problems, and domestic and international issues, including the war in Ukraine. He wrote that the United States was “incurably ill and heading toward collapse.”
Investigators were trying to determine whether Livelsperger wanted to make a political point, given the Tesla car and hotel bearing the president-elect’s name.
Law enforcement officials said Livelsperger had no ill will toward President-elect Donald Trump. In one of the notes he left, he said the country needed to ” rally around him” and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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