Anthropic and others are being sued for calling to slow down AI development

According to Politico, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, and Google have been sued for calling to "slow down" AI development.

The lawsuit claims that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly called for "industry-wide coordination" to "set the pace for the frontier" earlier this month, with the support of SpaceX AI head Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, which amounts to an illegal business agreement among competitors under U.S. antitrust law.

Nick Lolly, one of the lawyers representing the four plaintiffs in the Northern District of California, stated that the case aims to ensure that private self-serving agreements among the world's most powerful profit-driven tech companies do not lead to AI "rapidly spiraling out of human control." When it comes to existential threats like nuclear war and the greatest risks in human history today, humanity deserves ironclad guarantees. The rule of law should be established transparently and legally by the U.S. government and be accountable to the public.