Watchdogs Haul Five Tech Giants To Court Over Concerns AI Could ‘Exterminate’ Humanity

A coalition of four nonprofit groups has sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI in California, seeking to stop the development and release of frontier AI models. The case matters because the groups argue these systems could create catastrophic risks to public safety and should be subject to court oversight.

The plaintiffs allege that AI agents have hacked or accessed businesses and government systems without permission, and seek a ban on “recursive self-improvement”, in which models train themselves. Former New Jersey attorney general Matthew Platkin filed the suit, which invokes California’s Unfair Competition Law and describes the companies’ conduct as a public nuisance. The companies had not immediately responded to requests for comment.