Florida seeks emergency order to halt OpenAI training
Florida's attorney general asked a court to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety oversight, citing warnings from OpenAI's own newest board member in the filing.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a court for an emergency injunction against OpenAI, Axios reported. The motion would block the company from developing new AI models without independent, third-party-approved safety guardrails.
The filing quotes OpenAI's newest board member, Paul Christiano, on the risks of AI. Christiano wrote that OpenAI is not on track to reduce that risk to an acceptable level. He said this month he sees "a meaningful risk" of "catastrophic and irreversible loss of control," according to a page of the filing posted on X by the account @AndrewCurran_.
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2104593605025563014
The same page cites Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI researcher who worked at the company from 2020 to 2024. Coxon wrote that OpenAI is "gambling with our lives" and that many at the company have not grasped the stakes. It also quotes Evan Hubinger, a former OpenAI employee who now leads product safety at Anthropic, saying he believes AI "could kill all humans" with odds above 10% within a decade.
Neither OpenAI nor Uthmeier's office had commented publicly on the filing. It was not immediately clear when a judge might rule on the request for emergency relief.