Las Vegas Cybertruck Driver Used ChatGPT to Plan New Year’s Day Attack Outside Trump Hotel: Police

Mar. 15, 2025

TheNew Year’s Day cybertruck explosionthat killed one person outside a Las Vegas hotel was planned using ChatGPT, investigators say.

Matthew Livelsberger, 37, of Colorado, carried out the attack, killing himself and injuring seven people on Wednesday, Jan. 1, LVMPD previously said.

“We also have clear evidence now that the suspect used ChatGPT AI to help plan his attack,” Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at apress conferenceon Tuesday, Jan. 8.

The attacker used ChatGPT to “get information on how to conduct this particular plot, trying to figure out the amount of explosives needed in order to conduct the explosion he was looking to cause,” Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said at the press conference.

Some of the questions he asked the AI service include “Purchasing Tannerite in Arizona how much do you buy” and “what pistol could set it off.”

Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada - 01 Jan 2025.EyePress News/Shutterstoc

EyePress News/Shutterstoc

He further documented his purported struggles with his mental health, writing about “graphic encounters" from his time in the military which “replay in my head all day” and “ruined” all his relationships, leaving him a “shell of a human being with nothing to live for.”

This pointed towards the “suicidal” aspect of the case, Koren said.

Matthew Livelsberger.Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

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Police are continuing the investigation, but caution there are details in the documents that they cannot release due to the information being of relevance to the Department of Defense.

“With this new information comes more questions than answers," McMahill said at the conference.

source: people.com