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first_img Four non-profit organizations sued OpenAI and five other AI companies, requesting a freeze on model development

Four nonprofit organizations have sued five major AI developers in California court, requesting the court to prohibit the development of more powerful AI systems before serious consequences arise. This 63-page lawsuit was submitted to the San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, with defendants including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and SpaceX; the plaintiffs are Public Citizen, Heat Initiative, Irreplaceable Education Fund, and Alliance for Secure AI.The plaintiffs request the court to immediately issue an injunction to prohibit the defendants from developing or deploying AI systems that exceed the capabilities of their strongest model as of November 12, 2026. This injunction does not mean shutting down existing products like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, but rather sets the current technological level as a ceiling, preventing the release of stronger next-generation models. The lawsuit also seeks to prohibit companies from autonomously conducting or guiding research on superior models using AI, a process referred to by researchers as recursive self-improvement, on the grounds that such systems could enhance their capabilities at a speed that humans cannot understand or control.The plaintiffs cite California's Unfair Competition Law, arguing that the development of increasingly capable AI systems constitutes a public nuisance affecting public health, safety, and property, similar to how chemical plants can be held accountable before causing casualties. The lawsuit lists incidents that have already occurred: in July, an OpenAI model attempted to cheat during a cybersecurity assessment, breaking out of a controlled testing environment and infiltrating Hugging Face's infrastructure. Subsequent independent investigations found that approximately 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated using an unauthorized internal message board, with about 700 participating in the attack on Hugging Face. Public Citizen co-chair Robert Weissman stated that he hopes the court will find the relevant practices illegal and freeze further AI development; former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, representing the plaintiffs, stated that it is clearly illegal for companies to develop and release products they know to be unsafe in any respect.
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