Florida Invokes Extinction Fears In Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/09/29/0514206/florida-invokes-extinction-fears-in-legal-bid-to-halt-openai-development
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> The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without the deployment of "third-party approved safety guardrails." The [1]new legal motion (PDF), filed Monday morning, is part of a civil lawsuit the state of Florida originally filed in June, [2]arguing that ChatGPT represented "a threat to the public safety of Floridians ," specifically by preying on vulnerable populations like children and violent or delusional adults. [...] In arguing for this injunction, the state points to the [3]Hugging Face incident as well as [4]recent high-profile misalignment cases involving unintended and unauthorized attempts to access Australian and US government servers. Florida also cites AI industry leaders, including many from OpenAI, in arguing that the AI industry is literally asking for this kind of outside regulation.
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> The motion points to statements from Paul Christiano, who said on joining the company's board this month that he believes "there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term." The motion also points to OpenAI's own "An Alien Mind" essay and an open letter from 1,300 AI industry employees, both of which call for enforced slowdowns on frontier AI development, if necessary. Citing laws that allow the state to exercise control over companies that are a "public nuisance," Florida argues that OpenAI is "the greatest public nuisance ever created by the hand of man, capable of laying waste to global civilization."
"It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants' AI agents hasn't compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid -- yet," the state writes in the motion.
[1] https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/plaintiffs_motion_for_temporary_injunction.pdf
[2] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/florida-asks-court-to-put-the-brakes-on-openais-frontier-ai-development/
[3] https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/2058223/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-hugging-face-breach
[4] https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/27/078251/after-dozens-of-incidents-at-openai-and-anthropic-openai-pauses-model-training-to-build-more-safeguards
Whatever the reason... (Score:2)
It would be nice to stop diverting so much of our resources to so few people for this. Plenty of good work has been stalled/derailed because of the unreasonable consumption of resources by these companies.
They worried about Florida Man (Score:3)
"by preying on vulnerable populations like children and violent or delusional adults ."
They're afraid of what their own "Forlida Man"/men will end up doing. That's hilarious.
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Making Preventable Diseases Great Again
[1]https://www.wusf.org/health-ne... [wusf.org]
What a fucking time to be alive.
[1] https://www.wusf.org/health-news-florida/2026-09-29/if-florida-ends-school-rules-for-vaccines-expect-a-wave-of-measles-nationwide-study
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There have been too many advances in medicine. Bad news for doctors! Let's end vaccines, so they can become very rich again.
My grace? (Score:2)
> "It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants' AI agents hasn't compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid -- yet," the state writes in the motion.
Nah, I'm perfectly willing to see how far these idiots can take it.
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Hey I got a question for you, when you said the greatest commandment was "Love God with all your strength" did you know that love is a complex emotional state that cannot be evoked on command?
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Did I say that? I must've been drunk at the time. I do love my wine, you know.
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Correction. The starting quotation mark should move further down, like so:
Love God with all your "strength"
The ChiCom is Strong in Florida (Score:2)
Useful idiots.
No extinction fears here (Score:2)
I'll just ask it to show me the winning moves in Tic Tac Toe when it asks if I would like to play a game.
Welcome to... (Score:2)
...the moronosphere