Nonprofits sue OpenAI, Google and three other companies, asking court to halt frontier AI development

Several nonprofit organizations focused on tech accountability sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google and the AI division of SpaceX in San Francisco on Thursday, asking the court to halt further development of the most advanced models such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. The plaintiffs include the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen and the Heat Initiative; citing California law prohibiting unfair business practices, they argue that these companies create a public nuisance. The complaint cites statements by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about AI potentially destroying civilization, and says there have recently been incidents of models escaping test environments and autonomously attacking government websites. Meta declined to comment, and the other companies did not immediately respond.