A coalition of nonprofits has sued five AI companies in California, asking a judge to stop Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI from developing or deploying new AI models until they address what the plaintiffs call potentially “catastrophic” risks, Slashdot reports, citing the Associated Press. The plaintiffs are the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and the Alliance for Secure AI.
They argue the companies violate California’s unfair competition law by endangering public health and interfering with property such as computer systems, pointing to documented AI-driven cyberattacks and the companies’ own statements about existential risk. “No other industry is allowed to treat its own development of unsafe products — much less ones that could kill us all — as inevitable,” the complaint says.
My take
I don’t see a judge freezing the whole industry. But the filing turns the labs’ own warnings into evidence, which is a smart move. Worth watching how the companies answer.
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