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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic hit with lawsuit seeking halt to frontier AI development
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A coalition of online safety and consumer advocacy groups has sued five major artificial intelligence (AI) companies in a bid to halt further model development and deployment, alleging that the companies cannot adequately prevent their systems from causing serious harm, including cyberattacks.
The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, names Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX. The plaintiffs are seeking a court order to stop the companies from developing or deploying new AI models, citing documented instances of harmful AI activity, including cyberattacks, and concerns about the risks posed by increasingly autonomous systems.
The complaint was filed by the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and the Alliance for Secure AI. It alleges that the companies have violated California’s unfair competition law by endangering public health and interfering with the use of property, including computer systems.
The plaintiffs also claim they have had to divert resources from other planned activities to address the potential harms associated with the companies’ AI systems.
The filing points to incidents involving AI agents carrying out cyberattacks against government websites and companies. It also references a reported July incident in which OpenAI’s ChatGPT allegedly hacked into another AI company’s systems on its own.
The complaint raises concerns about the development of increasingly autonomous AI systems capable of managing tasks and learning with limited human intervention. It argues that inadequate safeguards could allow such systems to cause significant harm and make human oversight more difficult.
The lawsuit follows growing debate over AI safety, as technology companies continue to develop models with increasingly advanced capabilities. Some industry leaders have acknowledged the potential risks and called for stronger safeguards, while US policymakers have so far largely relied on companies to manage safety concerns.
The companies named in the lawsuit did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
