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Florida asks court for injunction halting OpenAI development without third-party safety guardrails

Florida has filed a motion for a temporary injunction against OpenAI, arguing its AI development poses public safety and catastrophic risks. OpenAI had not responded to Ars Technica's request for comment.

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Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without "third-party approved safety guardrails". The motion was filed on Monday 28 September as part of a civil lawsuit Florida first filed in June, which argued that ChatGPT was a threat to public safety, including through harm to children and to violent or delusional adults. The state points to the Hugging Face incident and to misalignment cases involving unauthorized attempts to access Australian and US government servers.

It also cites AI industry figures, including Paul Christiano, who said on joining OpenAI's board this month that there is a meaningful risk of catastrophic and irreversible loss of control, as well as OpenAI's own "An Alien Mind" essay and an open letter from 1,300 industry employees. Relying on public nuisance law, Florida calls OpenAI "the greatest public nuisance ever created by the hand of man, capable of laying waste to global civilization." Attorney General James Uthmeier said on social media that the state is asking the court for a temporary injunction, four months after filing the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman.

On Friday, OpenAI announced it had halted training of its most-capable models until it could validate safety protocols, but Florida argues the company has "repeatedly shown they are incapable of monitoring their AI". OpenAI had not responded to Ars Technica's request for comment. Ars Technica noted that many think the risk of civilizational collapse from current AI is overblown, and that an injunction against OpenAI alone would not stop rivals or affect models already public.

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Original reporting that leads with Florida's extinction-level rhetoric and adds analysis of the motion's limits and of the shifting policy mood on AI.
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Florida's dramatic language, the limits of an injunction against one company, and human misuse of AI.
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No OpenAI response beyond noting none had come.
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“Florida invokes extinction fears”“the greatest public nuisance ever created”
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“Florida seems more than happy to latch on to the recent public concern over that kind of risk.” — Ars Technica
“State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."” — Ars Technica

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Aggregator repost of the Ars Technica report, keeping the same headline and opening with Florida's request and its stated grounds.
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The injunction request, the original June suit, and the motion's citations of the Hugging Face incident and Christiano.
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Omits Ars Technica's analysis, the limits of an injunction, OpenAI's halt to training and the lack of an OpenAI response.
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“Florida Invokes Extinction Fears”
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“An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica:” — Slashdot
“Florida also cites AI industry leaders, including many from OpenAI, in arguing that the AI industry is literally asking for this kind of outside regulation.” — Slashdot

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