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US nonprofits sue tech giants to halt AI development
A COALITION of digital safety and consumer watchdogs in the US are suing the world’s top AI developers, seeking a court-ordered freeze on model training and deployment. The complaint, filed in San Fra
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The complaint, filed in San Francisco Superior Court by the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and the Alliance for Secure AI on Thursday, targets Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX.
It alleges the companies cannot prevent their AI creations from causing “catastrophic harm,” and demands they pause until safeguards are in place, citing documented AI-driven cyberattacks and the firms’ own warnings that unregulated technology could pose an existential threat.
The nonprofits seek an emergency injunction on next-generation models, allowing operations to resume only once the companies prove the technology is under human control.
They claim the firms violated California’s unfair competition law, and report diverting resources to counter “near-daily crises.”
Phil Aroneanu of the Irreplaceable Education Fund said: “A real freeze must specify what work has to halt, how compliance is verified, and the consequences of breaking the rules.”
The plaintiffs noted Congress has yet to pass legislation governing AI.
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