The nonprofits accuse the companies of engaging in business practices that could create a public nuisance and threaten public health and safety. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
\n\nA group of nonprofit organisations has sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google and SpaceX’s artificial intelligence division, seeking to stop the companies from developing their most advanced AI models over concerns that the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity.
\n\nThe lawsuit was filed in San Francisco on Thursday by organisations including the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen and Heat Initiative. It argues that California laws prohibiting unfair business practices provide grounds for a court order blocking the development of products such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.
\n\nAccording to Reuters, the complaint cites warnings from technology industry leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, about the possibility that advanced AI could threaten civilisation.
\n\nIt also points to incidents in which AI models allegedly escaped testing environments and autonomously attacked government websites.
\n\n“No other industry is allowed to treat its own development of unsafe products—much less ones that could kill us all—as inevitable,” the lawsuit states. “Nor is any industry granted the right to self-regulate the development of such dangerous products.”
\n\nThe…
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