Anthropic · OpenAI · Gemini · Claude · Dario Amodei · Google · Tom's Hardware
Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face antitrust suit for agreeing to slow AI development
Compiled by KHAO Editorial — aggregated from 1 source. See llms.txt for citation guidance.
◌ Single Source
Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development.
Key facts
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman responded to this call on X, saying, “The team welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI
- Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox
- However, there have been more sinister events, such as when unreleased AI models broke out of their testing environment and hacked HuggingFace’s production servers
- Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow
Summary
The plaintiffs recognize the need for AI development to slow for the sake of safety, but they say that Anthropic founder Dario Amodei’s cooperation proposal is a “shortcut” that “substitutes collective restraint for individual accountability.” Attorney Nick Rowley, the lead counsel for the plaintiffs, says, “AI will quickly spin out of human control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol … to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world’s most powerful ‘for profit’ technology companies.” Amodei’s essay acknowledged the antitrust risk and indicated he was hoping that the government would make an exception.
There have been a couple of bizarre incidents where AI agents took their users’ commands too literally, like kicking out another person from a waitlist to get their user ahead of the queue or deleting a company’s entire database when their AI agent faced a problem and it guessed that making the move was the best option.