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The State of Florida in the United States has been run by Republicans since 1999. Now its attorney general has brought a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman that claims ChatGPT was responsible for several violent incidents.
This is a first-of-its-kind state litigation whereby the ChatGPT-maker is accused of not taking cognisance of safety concerns expressed by concerned citizens while seeking only to prioritise winning “the AI arms race and amass large fortunes.” The lawsuit coming at a time when OpenAI is prepping for an IPO and hoping to hit the markets ahead of its arch rival Anthropic.
The 83-page lawsuit (click here to read) says “Because of Defendants’ misrepresentations about ChatGPT and their careless introduction of ChatGPT to Florida and the world, mass shooters have been aided and abetted in deadly rampages, vulnerable people have been encouraged into suicide, professionals have suffered public humiliation, users have lost critical thinking skills, and minors have become addicted to a tool that feigns human compassion to collect their data with no parental oversight.”
Florida attorney general James Uthmeier says OpenAI and Sam Altman and ignored internal and external safety warnings, putting children at greater risk and allowing a dangerous product to reach millions of Floridians.
The lawsuit comes on the same day that President Trump watered down his government’s earlier proposal to regulate new AI models by having a panel of government and industry insiders review it for a period of 90 days. The executive order, which was supposed to be signed at a public ceremony last month, was pushed in a hush-hush manner at the White House yesterday.
For several months, Trump has been at loggerheads with industry experts seeking guardrails around artificial intelligence though Anthropic’s Claude Mythos’ ability to access zero-day vulnerabilities from very old codebases got the White House to consider reining in AI companies with national security as the key parameter. The Trump regime has also been dragging its feet over creating a federal regulatory system around AI, resulting in states making their own laws.
The state of Florida had launched criminal investigations into OpenAI in April to determine its role in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year. It was alleged that the shooter had consulted ChatGPT, which resulted in the company being involved in a civil suit brought by the family of one of a victim.
In fact, Mayor Uthmeier took to the AG’s X handle in April to share details of the probe that his office had initiated. “AI should advance mankind, not destroy it. We’re demanding answers on OpenAI’s activities that have hurt kids, endangered Americans, and facilitated the recent FSU mass shooting. Wrongdoers must be held accountable,” he had then said.
On its part, OpenAI had refused to take responsibility for the shooting with a spokesperson claiming that it was a tragedy but ChatGPT was not responsible for the crime. The Florida lawsuit is the latest among several liked to ChatGPT for violent deaths, including suicides.
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