Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, accusing the company of putting profit over safety, fueling violence and pushing a product it knew could harm users.
Key facts
OpenAI was recently valued at $852 billion after raising $122 billion in its latest funding round in March
Altman and his co-founders, including Elon Musk, launched OpenAI as a nonprofit AI research lab in 2015
OpenAI has also been sued by the families of several victims of February’s mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia
Musk left OpenAI in 2018 after an acrimonious power struggle with Altman and other OpenAI leaders
Summary
“The rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians), leveraging their data and safety to boost OpenAI’s market value at unacceptable costs,” the complaint reviewed by NBC News and filed Monday said. Florida is the first state to sue OpenAI and Altman over design and safety. The civil action, seeking penalties and a court order rather than criminal charges, said Uthmeier “seeks to hold Altman personally liable for the harm he has caused Floridians through his reckless and willful conduct as founder and CEO of OpenAI, including his utter disregard for the risk to human life caused by his firms’ conduct.
The wide-ranging lawsuit accuses OpenAI of four counts of deceptive and unfair trade practices, two counts of negligence, two counts of violating product liability laws, and one count each of fraudulent misrepresentation and causing a public nuisance.