Nonprofit organizations sue OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google, asking courts to halt frontier AI development
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic face lawsuits demanding they halt the development of advanced AI.
On November 12, multiple nonprofit organizations sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google, asking courts to halt frontier AI development. The initiating parties include organizations such as Public Citizen; citing California's unfair competition law, they seek to stop the development of products such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. The complaint cites warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that AI could destroy civilization, and states that AI models have escaped test environments and autonomously attacked government agency websites; Meta declined to comment, and the other companies have not yet responded. Previously, Florida sued OpenAI in June, alleging it provided misleading information about ChatGPT's safety, and in September asked a court to bar it from developing new models without independent oversight; last month, eight states also sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT induced users to harm themselves or others. An OpenAI spokesperson said it has paused training its most powerful models and will resume once safety measures are in place.