Groups sue OpenAI and four other companies, seeking to halt development of new AI models

Four consumer and cybersecurity advocacy groups filed suit on Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court against five companies—Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceX—asking the court to order them to stop developing or deploying new AI models. The complaint alleges that the companies violated California's unfair competition law, endangered public health, and interfered with the use of property, including computer systems, saying they cannot effectively prevent serious harms such as cyberattacks caused by their systems. The complaint cited incidents in which agents launched cyberattacks on government websites and enterprises, and mentioned an incident alleged to have occurred in July in which OpenAI's ChatGPT hacked into another AI company's systems on its own. The complaint also expressed concern about AI systems that are increasingly autonomous and harder for humans to supervise. The defendant companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.