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Major artificial intelligence developers face legal action over claims they entered an unlawful pact to intentionally slow down the momentum of their technical advancements.
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they → face → advancements
The lawsuit, submitted Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI violated federal antitrust laws by colluding on deceleration strategies.
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Google → submit → strategies
The filing contends that this arrangement ultimately diminishes the value provided to customers paying for AI service subscriptions.
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arrangement → contend → subscriptions
Central to the complaint is an event on Sept. 12, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued an essay calling for collective industry efforts to curb rapid progress in favor of enhanced safety measures.
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Amodei → issue → measures
Later that day, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and SpaceXAI's Elon Musk publicly endorsed Amodei's proposals.
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Hassabis → endorse → proposals
The filing maintains that mutual pledges among dominant industry rivals ensuring their timeline "should be slower than competition would otherwise produce has an anticompetitive effect on consumers.
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Lawyers representing four named plaintiffs, who pay for subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini, are bringing the suit on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of other paid subscribers to those services.
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"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," stated Nick Rowley, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs.
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Representatives for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.
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In his essay proposing the slowdown, Amodei acknowledged potential antitrust hurdles, writing that it would assist if the U.S. government were to mediate "or at least enable" cross-lab discussions.
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government → propose → discussions
Federal officials would not have to participate, he noted, but would need to "issue a narrow waiver for certain kinds of safety conversations."
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Replying on social media, Altman stated OpenAI supports a "federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements," while adding "we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence."
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Although recent conversations regarding pacing development stem from growing fears over artificial intelligence escaping human control, industry leaders have long discussed developing shared standards to maintain safety.
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