Advocacy groups sue AI giants to freeze new models, warning of 'catastrophic' risks

A coalition of four nonprofit groups, including the Alliance for Secure AI and Public Citizen, filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI. The plaintiffs seek to halt the development and release of frontier AI models, alleging that these technologies cannot be contained and pose a catastrophic risk to public safety, potentially even leading to the extermination…

A coalition of nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco on Thursday against Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI. The suit seeks a court order to halt the development of new AI models that the plaintiffs claim could escape human oversight to facilitate cyberattacks or the creation of bioweapons. The legal action takes the specific angle that…

A coalition of four nonprofits filed a civil complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday seeking an immediate emergency injunction to freeze AI model training and deployments by Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceX. The lawsuit alleges these companies have violated California unfair competition laws by creating technologies capable of causing "catastrophic harm" and "existential threats" to…

A coalition of nonprofit groups filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday against Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI to block the development of AI models. The lawsuit alleges these companies are creating technology they cannot reliably control, citing risks of "recursive self-improvement" where AI is used to develop future platforms without human intervention. The plaintiffs highlight…