According to 21st Century Business Herald, on November 13, four U.S. nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and SpaceX's AI unit in San Francisco Superior Court, seeking to halt their development of advanced AI models. The plaintiffs requested that the court suspend training and deployment of next-generation models until the defendants can prove their technology is under human control.
The plaintiffs alleged the companies violated California's unfair competition law by endangering public health and disrupting the use of computer systems. The lawsuit centers on public statements by the defendants' executives themselves, including warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about potential civilization-ending risks from advanced AI, as well as a Google DeepMind research paper suggesting superintelligent AI could be developed within years.